Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 19:43:09 08/29/02
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On August 29, 2002 at 22:23:43, Will Singleton wrote: >On August 29, 2002 at 20:05:59, Dann Corbit wrote: > >>On August 29, 2002 at 06:15:19, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote: >> >>>On August 28, 2002 at 15:20:25, Georg v. Zimmermann wrote: >>> >>>>Hey GCP, >>>> >>>>how is Deep Sjeng going ? What did you use to understand the parallel >algorithms you are using (which ones) ? >>> >>>I started out with ABDADA (described in ICCA journal article and used >>>in Amy), which got me a speedup of +- 1.2. I went on to try PVS (Crafty >>>15.0 and described in several articles about parallel search) which got >>>me a speedup of 1.2-1.3. >>> >>>1.3 wasn't enough, so I 'bit the bullent' and started looking at DTS (Cray >>>Blitz). Unfortunately, DTS is both hideously complicated and requires a >>>nonrecursive search and a p2p design. >>> >>>I spent some time working on a variant of DTS that can work with a recursive >>>search function and a master-slave design and that is what I am using now. >>> >>>It still needs a lot of test work, but current results indicate a speedup >>>of about 1.6 >> >>I have a dual Xeon here at 2.4 GHz (1 gig ram). Might be worth a bench call to >>see how it can perform. > >I saw that system at the Dell website. How does it perform? > >Will An even better question. Someone on the linux kernel mailing list said that they have a quad 2.2ghz xeon machine. Anybody seen that advertised anywhere???
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