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Subject: Re: UltraSPARC III sucks

Author: David Rasmussen

Date: 12:53:33 01/02/02

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On January 02, 2002 at 15:41:41, Peter Berger wrote:

>On January 02, 2002 at 15:34:55, David Rasmussen wrote:
>
>>I've tried running Crafty at my universitys multiprocessor machines, with poor
>>results. Using 4 processors was kind of ok, but not great (~750 knps), but using
>>many more processors (16, 24, etc.) just made it slower. How crummy is that.
>>
>>/David
>
>Are you sure? Sparc processors usually scale very well.
>
>If it really became worse I'd suspect a problem with Crafty.
>
>OK, a silly question: did you remember to recompile Crafty so that it really
>could use all those processors?
>
>pete

I changed the -DCPUS=4 line in the makefile to -DCPUS=16 for example.

/David



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