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

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 20:04:01 07/04/03

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On July 04, 2003 at 03:35:45, Richard Pijl 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:
>
>Doesn't this mean 4 threads?
>
>>
>>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.
>
>As you're running 4 threads against 2 I don't think nps is a good comparison.
>I'd rather see the time-to-ply with the same crafty versions. Or nps with SMT
>off ofcourse.
>
>Richard.

Why does number of threads matter?  It is a dual xeon vs a dual opteron.

It just so happens that the xeon supports hyperthreading while the opteron
does not.  Should I penalize the xeon?


>
>>  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.
>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>>On July 03, 2003 at 17:59:38, Brian Richardson wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>I have set up a tempoary account (OpteronCrafty) on ICC with wcrafty-19.03.exe,
>>>>>the basic unmodified x86 binary from Bob's FTP site.
>>>>>
>>>>>It is running on a dual CPU Opteron 244 system.
>>>>>
>>>>>5 men EGTBs, standard book.bin and bookc.bin files.
>>>>>
>>>>>Initially set to only play unrated games, since there is no
>>>>>established rating, to be fair.
>>>>>
>>>>>I thought some folks would like to test their play or their engines
>>>>>against it...so have at it and message Richardson with any comments.
>>>>>
>>>>>Account only open for a few days, unless ICC extends, so enjoy the
>>>>>holiday (USA) weekend!
>>>>>
>>>>>There are no Opteron compiler or profiling optimizations, yet.
>>>>>
>>>>>If anyone would like to email me a better Opteron optimized binary
>>>>>for Windows, please feel free.
>>>>>
>>>>>Brian



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