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Subject: Re: HW based Crafty (Boule's thesis)

Author: Keith Evans

Date: 19:39:33 04/07/02

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On April 07, 2002 at 19:44:16, Tom Kerrigan wrote:

>On April 07, 2002 at 12:50:36, Keith Evans wrote:
>
>>Do you have any idea what the spread is? Or what this is for a recent Crafty on
>>an x86? Hsu mentioned 40,000 instructions per node as typical for a high-end
>>program in his IEEE Micro article, but didn't explain how he arrived at the
>>number.
>
>That is wronger than wrong. Are you sure he wasn't talking about how many
>instructions it would take to implement DB's eval in software? Because even if
>you assume an MPU that retires 2 instructions per cycle, that would result in a
>program searching only 100k NPS on a 2GHz CPU. Programs were searching that fast
>on CPUs from 7 years ago.
>
>-Tom

I think that you are correct. Vincent says that Diep gets about 60k NPS on a
fast K7, but it's definitely an outlier. I still wonder how Hsu got that number.
Did they write a efficient software model of the DB eval?

Regards,
Keith



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