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Subject: Re: 8 way processor

Author: Eugene Nalimov

Date: 17:45:33 08/22/02

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Several days ago I run Crafty on 3 different dual systems. I measured only nps
reported by 'bench', not time to solve something, so resulting numbers show how
efficient dual support in the system is implemented.

PIII/800:    1.9x
P4/2GHz:     1.86x
Athlon/1.67  1.4x

I.e. Athlon was much faster than P4 using single CPU, but became slower when
both CPUs were used.

Thanks,
Eugene

On August 22, 2002 at 20:15:15, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On August 22, 2002 at 18:04:21, Rajen Gupta wrote:
>
>>On August 22, 2002 at 17:16:18, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>>
>>>On August 22, 2002 at 15:18:37, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:
>>>
>>>>On August 22, 2002 at 15:17:55, Rajen Gupta wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>thanks: sorry for the obvious quesion but how fast is a 4 way compared to a
>>>>>single or a 2 way(i assume a 2 way is about 1.75 times a single)
>>>>
>>>>4 way is about 3 times faster than a single
>>>>
>>>>--
>>>>GCP
>>>
>>>
>>>I don't think he was talking about chess.  He was talking about number-crunching
>>>in general I assume.  So the right answer is nearly 1.7 for a dual, nearly 4.0
>>>for a quad, and nearly 6.8 for an 8-way box.
>>
>>sorry: i was actually talking about chess
>>
>>rajen
>
>
>In that case the answer varies significantly.  3.0 (as GCP gave) is a good
>rule of thumb.  But then the other numbers I gave are too high.  IE a dual
>is about 1.7x faster than a single before considering chess.  It would be
>about 1.7x faster playing chess if memory was not an issue.  As a result,
>a dual may well be slower than 1.7x for chess, as it depends on the memory
>system.  dual servers may well have interleaving, while dual desktop machines
>typically don't to keep cost down.



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