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Subject: Re: Crafty multithreading

Author: Ernst A. Heinz

Date: 06:11:14 05/23/98

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On May 22, 1998 at 16:52:31, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>On May 22, 1998 at 15:12:19, Ernst A. Heinz wrote:
>
>>On May 22, 1998 at 13:19:04, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>>
>>Bob,
>>
>>Great WAC results -- my congratulations!
>>
>>>Note that the ALR machine is running approxmiately as fast as the 500mhz
>>>alpha machine we used in Paris, for comparison.  On that machine we were
>>>hitting around 250K nodes per sec...  on this machine roughly a little
>>>faster, but about 1/4 to 1/3 of the machine is "wasted" due to search
>>>overhead...  So that the newer alpha machines would actually be a bit
>>>faster on one processor, and way faster with more than one...
>>
>>Sounds a bit strange to me if you look at the SPECint95 ratings of
>>a PPro 200 MHz = 8.7 (i.e., 4x PPro 200MHz = 4x 8.7 = 34.8) and a
>>500MHz Alpha-21164a = 15.0 ...
>>
>>Are you sure about comparing the speeds on the same positions?
>>
>>=Ernst=
>
>yes.  We ran several tests comparing a single pentium pro/200 to the
>alpha/500 we used in Paris, and got 3.1X speedup on that machine.

Hmh, for "Crafty 14.10" Kai Luebke's WWW pages mention the following
benchmark speeds:

CPU             MHz  hash   hashp  nps     n/M  Tester
--------------  ---  ----   -----  ------  ---  ------
Alpha 21164     500  96.0m   5.0m  187549  375  Michel van der List
Pentium II      300  48.0m   5.0m  122460  408  Michel van der List
Pentium II      233  48.0m  10.0m  111475  478  John Perry
Pentium Pro    (233) 24.0m   5.0m  107949  ---  Kai "AMD-Killer" Luebke
AMD K6          233  12.0m   5.0m  101103  434  Werner Muehlpfordt  (1)
HP PA8000       160  12.0    640k  100485  628  Michael Kalisz
AMD K6          233  12.0m   5.0m   93735  402  Djordje Vidanovic
Pentium Pro     200  24.0m  10.0m   87143  ---  Kai Lübke

According to this list, "Crafty 14.10" runs roughly 2x faster on a
500MHz Alpha-21164a than on a 200MHz PPro which corresponds quite
well to the relative SPECint95 ratings of both CPUs ...

=Ernst=



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