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Subject: Re: Comparing two Identical Programs using Different Processors Speed

Author: Jorge Pichard

Date: 18:19:00 01/28/01

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On January 28, 2001 at 18:24:08, Uri Blass wrote:

>On January 28, 2001 at 17:56:06, Jorge Pichard wrote:
>
>>On January 28, 2001 at 16:58:22, Uri Blass wrote:
>>
>>>On January 28, 2001 at 14:33:23, Jorge Pichard wrote:
>>>
>>>>Six Weeks ago I matched Nimzo 8 Vs Junior 6 at G\60 using an AMD Athlon 800 MHz
>>>>And the score after 75 games ended up with a slight advantage of 6.5 points for
>>>>Nimzo 8. Then one week after that match, I decided to match the same two
>>>>programs, but I used an AMD K6-2 500 MHz instead, and the score after 75 games
>>>>ended this time in favor of Junior 6 by almost the same margin as the previous
>>>>match. I realized that certain program benefit more than others as the speed of
>>>>the processor increases, but I wasn't satified yet and decided to test the same
>>>>two programs one more time with a slower processor this time. I asked my friend
>>>>John to test these two programs again with his old Pentium Celeron 333 MHz at
>>>>G\60 and after 9 games, Junior 6 was beating Nimzo 8 by W7 D2 L0 and, at that
>>>>moment I decided to stop the match. I can only conclude that Nimzo 8 benefit
>>>>more as the speed of the processor increase, therefore, Nimzo 8 will not have a
>>>>great SSDF rating by the middle of February, but if you have a P.C. with a
>>>>processors higher than 800 MHz Nimzo 8 is one of the few programs that benefit
>>>>the most by using the latest technology available.
>>>>
>>>>Pichard.
>>>
>>>I do not understand why do you work so hard in playing games.
>>>
>>>I think that you should find the number of nodes per seconf of nimzo8 and
>>>Junior6 on:
>>>
>>>1) Celeron 333
>>>2) K6-2 500
>>>3)Athlon 800
>>>
>>>For example
>>>If you find that nimzo's number are 250000,500000,1000000
>>>when Junior's numbers are 300000,500000,830000 then it will be an excellent
>>>proof that Nimzo earns more from the new processors.
>>
>>The NPS is not a true scientific measure of Knowing why a certain program
>>benefit more than another from the gain in processors speed. For instance, if
>>you provide Nimzo 8 to play a game by using 1 Minute per moves and at the same
>>time you provide Junior 6 also 1 minute per move. You might have this escenario:
>>
>>1.  Let say that after one minute Nimzo 8 was able to reach XXXXXX NPS by using
>>the Celeron 333 MHz but was not able to find the best move within that horizon,
>>whereas Junior 6 by reaching XXXXXX NPS was able to find a better move. Now when
>>you increase the speed of the processor to a higher level (K6-2 500 MHz) Nimzo 8
>>is now getting closer to zero in, where it could find a better move provided the
>>same amount of time of 1 minute per move, whereas Junior 6 is still providing
>>almost the same evaluation. Finally, when you increase the speed of the
>>processor to a minimum of 800 MHz, Junior 6 is of course calculating a higher
>>number of NPS, but is not improving the evaluation too significant as compared
>>to Nimzo 8 when is finally reaching is peak.
>
>The ssdf games are at 2 hours /40 moves that is more than twice slower than 1
>hour/game

I will test these two programs using my friend Celeron 333 MHz at 2 hours /40
moves and post the games tommorow, He agreed to let his computer run overnite.

Pichard.

>I do not think that having p3-800 can compensate for the difference in nps.
>
>It means that if there is a problem with the ssdf results of nimzo then your
>results suggest that the problem is different than the case that nimzo earns
>more from slower time control on the same hardware.
>
>
>The only possible problem that I can think of except the possible case that
>Nimzo earns more nodes per second from faster hardware is the case when the
>meaning of nps in faster hardware is not the same and Nimzo can see with the
>same number of nps more if it has faster hardware when it is the opposite for
>Junior.
>
>It is hard to check it for Junior because Junior do different jumps at different
>time controls and it may jump from iteration 14 to 16 using hardware A when it
>jumps from depth 15 to 17 using hardware B.
>I do not know if it is possible to translate a time control for Junior with
>hardware A to another time control with hardware B in order to force Junior to
>do the same jumps.
>
>Uri



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