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Subject: Re: UltraSPARC III sucks

Author: David Rasmussen

Date: 12:54:41 01/02/02

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On January 02, 2002 at 15:40:08, Dann Corbit 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.
>
>Did you do the compile with 96 processors enabled?  It won't do that by default.
>I am pretty sure you need to change the define for CPUs like this:
>#define CPUS=96
>
>Look at this in chess.h:
>
>#if !defined(CPUS)
>#  define CPUS 1
>#endif
>
>I am guessing you will see (96/4) * 0.7 * 750K = ~12M NPS or so.

I changed -DCPUS=4 to -DCPUS=16 in Makefile and put mt=16 in .craftyrc

/David



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