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Subject: Re: OT: P4- 3 GHz with hyper-threading

Author: Gian-Carlo Pascutto

Date: 11:30:09 11/02/02

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On November 02, 2002 at 14:21:48, Eugene Nalimov wrote:

>On November 02, 2002 at 13:37:41, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:
>
>>On November 01, 2002 at 17:26:39, Eugene Nalimov wrote:
>>
>>>Net result: you can look at the numbers I posted, and you will definitely see
>>>that hyperthreading gives current Crafty, without any hyperthread-related
>>>modifications, double-digit improvement.
>>
>>Only in nodes per second, not in real speedup.
>
>Dual P4/2.4GHz, hyperthreading is on.
>
>mt=2: times are 42, 43, 39, 40, 38, average is 40.
>mt=4: times are 36, 31, 37, 29, 38, average is 34.
>
>No real speedup, are you sure?

You reported 8% earlier on for the real speedup, which is not
'double-digit improvement'

I don't really understand how mt=4 can give an additional speedup.
Is this the effect of 'pause' and slow memory?

Is hyperthreading able to 'emulate' more than 2 cpus?

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GCP



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