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Subject: Re: Which is faster Quad xeon or dual pIII933

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 19:39:41 02/21/01

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On February 21, 2001 at 17:12:35, David Wilke wrote:

>On February 21, 2001 at 16:15:33, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>>On February 21, 2001 at 14:08:25, Uri Blass wrote:
>>
>>>I ask the question because I am interested to know which program has hardware
>>>advantage(Diep or the other parallel programs).
>>>
>>>Uri
>>
>>
>>Math goes like this:  my quad xeon is 4 X 700mhz, a total of 2800 megahertz.
>>Typically a program loses 30% of each processor after the first, which means
>>that the efficiency is 3.1 X 700 roughly.  For the dual 933, the efficiency
>>is going to be about 1.7 X 933.  So the dual is a bit out-gunned, but not by
>>a huge margin.
>
>Is this the machine that Crafty and Scrappy are now using?
>
>I believe in the finger notes that they are still state to be Quad 550's.


No.  Scrappy uses a 550 all the time.  Crafty uses a 550 most of the time but
I do run it on the quad 700 when I am not doing something else on it...




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