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Subject: Re: a number and two questions for bob

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 08:25:54 05/06/04

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On May 06, 2004 at 02:50:19, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:

>On May 05, 2004 at 18:24:11, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>>I see 16-cpu speedups vary from 6.0 to 15.3.  That is not "very small
>>variability" if we are talking about the same thing.  The numbers are all over
>>the chart, just like current parallel numbers are with Crafty...  4-cpu tests
>>were not nearly so variable, but that is the difference between DTS and the
>>current less-effective algorithm...  But even 4 cpu tests varied from 2.6 to
>>4.0.  Current Crafty would almost certainly produce 1-2 results > 4.0, why DTS
>>did not is anybody's guess...
>
>Over half the of the 2 cpu speedup numbers are 2.0 exactly, yet none of them
>is > 2.
>
>You truly are a man of amazing coincidences.
>
>--
>GCP

Happens.  I have hundreds of tests with no super-linear speedup from Crafty
either.  As for DTS, when you think about how I did the splitting, you can
figure out why super-linear speedups were very unlikely...




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