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

Author: Jorge Pichard

Date: 05:45:22 01/29/01

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On January 28, 2001 at 21:19:00, Jorge Pichard wrote:

>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.

My friend John just called me giving me a surprising news, Nimzo 8 just finished
winning the 2nd game in a row using 2 hours /40 moves, whereas it didn't win a
single game using G\60 after 9 games.

>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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