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Subject: Re: 64 bits

Author: Brian Richardson

Date: 19:03:07 06/19/02

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On June 19, 2002 at 13:08:21, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On June 19, 2002 at 10:30:39, Brian Richardson wrote:
>
>>On June 19, 2002 at 00:39:23, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>>>Two points:
>>>
>>>1.  The 21264 runs Crafty at > 800K nodes per second using a single processor
>>>at 600mhz.  What 32 bit single processor can run crafty that fast?  Answer:
>>>zero.
>>>
>>
>>Actually, my AMD 1900MP runs Crafty slightly faster than both the single and 2
>>cpu Alpha WAC nps test results, albeit at about 1600MHz, not 600.
>>
>>Of course, just having 64bits is not enough.  MIPS was 64 bits in Oct 1991, but
>>broad industry support requires other things, like lots of software, etc.
>>Otherwise, Digital might have bought Compaq.
>>
>>That said, I decided to use 64 bit bitboards in Tinker (baed on Crafty) 4 years
>>ago in anticipation of 64 bit Intel processors.  I did not figure that Intel
>>would be several years late.
>>
>>Brian
>
>
>Your single-cpu machine breaks 1.2M nodes per second?  I haven't seen such
>results from any machine I have run on (32 bit machines anyway, limited to a
>single CPU)...

I can only go on what you posted earlier, Bob.  Nearly 800Knps was the single
cpu system.  Either way, the AMD is slightly faster, as I had emailed you
earlier.  Note that this was also with v16.19 (no lockless hashing factor).

Alpha
1 cpu  21264/600mhz:
total positions searched..........         300
number right......................         300
number wrong......................           0
percentage right..................         100
percentage wrong..................           0
total nodes searched.............. 236973211.0
average search depth..............         4.5
nodes per second..................      783641

2 cpus, 21264/600mhz:
total positions searched..........         300
number right......................         300
number wrong......................           0
percentage right..................         100
percentage wrong..................           0
total nodes searched.............. 330905102.0
average search depth..............         4.5
nodes per second..................     1266767

AMD 1900+MP
max threads set to 2
hash table memory = 384M bytes.
pawn hash table memory = 32M bytes.
pondering disabled.
Crafty v16.19 (2 cpus)
test results summary:
total positions searched.......... 300
number right...................... 300
number wrong...................... 0
percentage right.................. 100
percentage wrong.................. 0
total nodes searched.............. 19013488028.0
average search depth.............. 12.2
nodes per second.................. 1357144
(run without test xxx n, st=60)

1 CPU
total positions searched..........         300
number right......................         300
number wrong......................           0
percentage right..................         100
percentage wrong..................           0
total nodes searched..............4639292700.0
average search depth..............         9.7
nodes per second..................      960490
(run with test xxx n=8)



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