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

Author: Brian Richardson

Date: 09:52:31 07/04/03

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On July 03, 2003 at 21:45:54, Slater Wold wrote:

>On July 03, 2003 at 21:42:17, Slater Wold wrote:
>
>>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.
>
>
>Opps!
>
>From the exe offered on Hyatt's website.
>
>
>EPD Kit revision date: 1996.04.21
>found computer opening book file [./bookc.bin].
>
>Crafty v18.15 (1 cpus)
>
>White(1): mt 2
>max threads set to 2
>White(1): bench
>Running benchmark. . .
>......
>Total nodes: 106580575
>Raw nodes per second: 1440278
>Total elapsed time: 74
>SMP time-to-ply measurement: 8.648649
>White(1): end
>execution complete.
>
>
>1.73M with a profiled exe using Intel's compiler.
>
>I'd be interested to see what he gets with the FTP exe of 18.15.

FTP binary, no profile optimization, I think:

hash table memory = 384M bytes.
pawn hash table memory = 24M bytes.
5 piece tablebase files found
20370kb of RAM used for TB indices and decompression tables
max threads set to 2

Crafty v18.15 (2 cpus)

White(1): bench
Running benchmark. . .
......
Total nodes: 86094416
Raw nodes per second: 1721888
Total elapsed time: 50
SMP time-to-ply measurement: 12.800000
White(1): mt=1
max threads set to 1
White(1): thread 1 exiting
bench
Running benchmark. . .
......
Total nodes: 84497760
Raw nodes per second: 1069591
Total elapsed time: 79
SMP time-to-ply measurement: 8.101266
White(1):



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