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Subject: Re: Perft(10) verified

Author: Russell Reagan

Date: 01:42:10 12/10/03

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On December 10, 2003 at 02:50:45, Tony Werten wrote:

>On December 09, 2003 at 10:29:00, Albert Bertilsson wrote:
>
>>Hi!
>>
>>I've finally got around verifying perft(10) from the starting position and it
>>is: 69352859712417, that is 69*10^12 nodes.
>>
>>It took 85 hours for my four computers to calculate it. If some people has a
>>couple of spare cpu cycles perft(11) would be no mayor problem to calculate.
>
>That's over 226 Mn/s. Quite high.


Wow. It sure is. Even for 4 computers working on it. The fastest public perft
calculator that I know of is Movei, which calculates at about 15 Mnps on my
Athlon 2400+ (which is faster than any of the hardware mentioned). I have heard
that a private version of Yace is faster. Even if Yace is twice as fast, running
on four Athlon 2400+'s (which would be faster than the mentioned hardware), we
are still only at 120 Mnps. Only two of the computers were running 24/7 too.
With a generous estimate of about 7GHz of the total number of cycles executed
between all four machines per second (and assuming they were running 24/7),
we're looking at about 40 cycles per node. That is a lot of asumptions, and we
are still 100 Mnps short.

So that's either very impressive, or something is wrong :)


>Tony
>
>>
>>Hardware used:
>>XP2100+ (256MB hash)
>>XP1700+ (128MB hash) (not working on the problem 24/7)
>>Celeron 800 (128MB hash) (not contributing very much =))
>>P4 2GHz (256MB hash) (not working on the problem 24/7)
>>
>>/Regards Albert



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