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Subject: Re: Hyper-Threading Technology from Intel-to Hype or Not to Hype?

Author: Vincent Diepeveen

Date: 12:37:00 03/05/03

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On March 05, 2003 at 11:37:48, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On March 05, 2003 at 10:20:05, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:
>
>>On March 05, 2003 at 02:05:30, Aaron Gordon wrote:
>>
>>and those AMD chips are way faster than the intels too :)
>
>I'm still waiting for a > 2.1M nps number from Crafty's benchmark, no
>.craftyrc/crafty.rc
>file used.  My 2.8 produced 2.16M nodes per second on the raw benchmark
>number...

Even at specint the XP is faster for you than the P4, so i do not know what you
talk about.

Not to mention the huge NPSes which get produced for special compiled crafties
for the AMD K7. No i'm not referring to the intel c++ 7.0 compiler which you use
for your P4, that compiler is horrible for K7s.

Apart from that you are always in the minority. Most people care more about the
deep fritz and deep shredder and DIEP actually than they *ever* will do about
crafty.

No one for example was capable of reproducing a 30% speedup at a dual Xeon
system for SMT. No one ever was capable, not even at specint to produce the
speed you got 'at home' at a 600Mhz clocked 21264c.

Even the 21264c at 1 Ghz at specint is a lot slower than a 1.5Ghz K7 or a 2Ghz
P4, so i wonder always about your testing methods.

It's very easy. Compile a crafty version with intel c++ 7.0 for windoze. then
run the bench under windows. then compare with the bench at (dual) XP. test
finished.

>Of course this machine doesn't exist, so the numbers are imaginary.

You should checkout numbers posted at CCC by dual AMD owners a bit more.

>>
>>>On March 04, 2003 at 21:57:58, Nolan Denson wrote:
>>>
>>>>There are no draw backs when looking to get a computer that using
>>>>Hyper-Threading. If you do not like the feature you can just simply turn it off.
>>>>There are many system on the market that claims to be Hyper Threading enabled.
>>>>Intel has a utility program that checks for Hyper Threading ...
>>>>
>>>>1. You must have the proper CPU's.
>>>>2. You must have the proper motherboard.
>>>>3. You bios must support it.
>>>>4. Your Operating system must support it.
>>>>
>>>>Once these things are met your system will indicate that Hyper Threading is
>>>>enable before booting into the Operating System.
>>>>
>>>>It is not an indication that you will see when the computer is turned on and the
>>>>Bios is posting.
>>>>
>>>>Soon all of Intel processcor's will have Hyper Threading. So if what you are
>>>>using your processor slows down with Hyper Threading, just simply turn it off
>>>>via the Bios.
>>>
>>>How convenient. Have to reboot 20 times per day to turn it on/off just so your
>>>applications run optimally. I'll be sticking with the cooler running, faster,
>>>and cheaper AMD chips. :)
>>>
>>>>On March 04, 2003 at 17:39:42, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>On March 04, 2003 at 16:32:33, Jay-R Delacruz wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>Do the deep versions of Fritz, Junior and Shredder support hyper-thread? Can
>>>>>>someone please tell me before upgrading my PC to try the deep versions?
>>>>>
>>>>>I just read email from Frans Morsch. DeepFritz7 gets 5-10% speedup by
>>>>>hyperthreading.
>>>>>
>>>>>Shredder gets more speedup in nodes a second than that, but it gets no speedup
>>>>>from it as it gets SMP already a far smaller speedup (1.5 or so), so it is
>>>>>smarter to turn SMT/HT off for it. perhaps shredder8 will fix this.
>>>>>
>>>>>For diep it speeds me up about 11% in NPS but i cannot garantuee that at a 4
>>>>>processor it will give a positive speedup.
>>>>>
>>>>>When running 2 processes at a P4 at 3.06ghz it will give for sure some speedup
>>>>>because it goes from 100k nps to 120k nps. Nearly 20% speedup it gets with it
>>>>>(18.6 or something) which gives a positive speedup also in depth.
>>>>>
>>>>>For deepjunior we know that it already works bad at 8 processor Xeon 1.6Ghz
>>>>>versus 4 processor Xeon 1.9Ghz, so i *assume* for now that SMT/HT will not give
>>>>>it much benefit for it at all, but perhaps Amir or Shay wants to give a
>>>>>statement regarding this themselves.
>>>>>
>>>>>We talk of course about the SMT/HT from Xeon processors up to 2.8Ghz now for
>>>>>those which have it enabled. For the P4 3.06Ghz and also Xeons of that and above
>>>>>things are a different matter.
>>>>>
>>>>>Best regards,
>>>>>Vincent



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