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Subject: Re: OpteronCrafty playing on ICC for a few days

Author: Slater Wold

Date: 18:42:17 07/03/03

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On July 03, 2003 at 19:58:22, Tom Kerrigan wrote:

>On July 03, 2003 at 19:32:37, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>>On July 03, 2003 at 18:55:19, Brian Richardson wrote:
>>
>>>On July 03, 2003 at 18:26:33, Slater Wold wrote:
>>>
>>>>What are your results with your current exe, on the Crafty 'bench' test?
>>>
>>>                                        Elapsed SMP             Raw
>>>                        Version CPUs    time    time-to-ply     NPS
>>>Opteron 244 (1.7GHz)	19.03	2	28	22.857143	1976833
>>>Opteron 244 (1.7GHz)	19.03	1	43	14.883721	1234812
>>
>>That leaves me pretty cold.  Dual 2.8ghz xeon, SMT on:
>>
>>Total nodes: 122846715
>>Raw nodes per second: 2082147
>>Total elapsed time: 59
>>
>>This is a different version (19.4) so the time is not really comparable,
>>but the NPS is, and the xeon is faster than the opteron.  That looks ugly,
>>although it obviously means the opteron is running 32 bit mode only, and it
>>isn't very happy doing it.  Be nice to get real 64 bit boolean operations
>>up and going.
>
>"Isn't very happy"? What's wrong with it? What kind of #s does a dual Athlon
>1.8GHz get? If the Opteron improves over the Athlon with 32 bit code (and I
>suspect it does) it seems like there should be very little cause for complaint.
>Add to that the fact that Opteron will almost ceratinly run 64 bit Crafty much
>faster and we're talking about a 1st generation Opteron anyway. Rumor is, 2GHz
>Opterons will be available on the 6th, and those should be 5% faster than your
>dual 2.8 Xeon.
>
>-Tom

Opterons are *much* faster than Athlons.

My 2x1.73s got about 1.7M nps.



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