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Subject: Dual AMD 1.73Ghz speedup

Author: Slater Wold

Date: 11:16:22 08/23/02


Eugene has posted the following on the speedup of various systems using Crafty:

On August 22, 2002 at 20:45:33, Eugene Nalimov wrote:

>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


I just wanted to report my findings:

Dual AMD 1.73Ghz running Windows XP Pro and Crafty 18.15 from Hyatt's FTP site:


EPD Kit revision date: 1996.04.21
found computer opening book file [./bookc.bin].

Crafty v18.15 (1 cpus)

White(1): bench
Running benchmark. . .
......
Total nodes: 97498164
Raw nodes per second: 911197
Total elapsed time: 107
SMP time-to-ply measurement: 5.981308
White(1): end
execution complete.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

EPD Kit revision date: 1996.04.21
found computer opening book file [./bookc.bin].

Crafty v18.15 (1 cpus)

White(1): mt 2
max threads set to 2
White(1): bench
Running benchmark. . .
......
Total nodes: 106580575
Raw nodes per second: 1440278
Total elapsed time: 74
SMP time-to-ply measurement: 8.648649
White(1): end
execution complete.


Result:  1.58x nps



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