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Subject: Re: Intel claims hyperthreading produces 900%+ boost (kinda OT)

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 08:53:26 12/06/02

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On December 06, 2002 at 10:31:54, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:

>On December 06, 2002 at 10:24:22, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>>On December 06, 2002 at 07:14:29, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:
>>
>>>On December 06, 2002 at 05:40:25, Matt Taylor wrote:
>>>
>>>>On December 06, 2002 at 05:09:03, Daniel Clausen wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=6586
>>>>>
>>>>>I love marketing. :)
>>>>>
>>>>>Sargon
>>>>
>>>>Offhand I would have said the one on the left was a Williamette. ;)
>>>>Then again, Intel claimed that both chips had HT.
>>>>
>>>>The only thing I can figure is that someone made a big typo.
>>>>
>>>>-Matt
>>>
>>>Test results provided by Robert Hyatt i see in small font right bottom :)
>>
>>
>>What are you talking about here?  I haven't given them any results at all.  In
>>fact,
>>I have had a hyperthreading CPU in my office for two days now and the only
>>result I have provided to anyone was what I provided here (SMT on = 1.33X SMT
>>off).
>
>Can you please post verbose outputs with for each ply also the number
>of nodes printed?
>
>That factor 9 times speedup of their own test is a bit much though :)
>
>Thanks,
>Vincent


I can post output.  I can't print nodes between plies for the same reason I have
never
been able to do that.  All I can do is search to a specific depth and print the
node counter
when the search completely stops.

I ran a dual-thread test with SMT off, and a quad-thread test with SMT on.

The single position I tried searched 1.5M nodes per second with SMT off, and
2.1M
nodes per second with SMT on.  I haven't had time to run exhaustive tests and I
haven't
tried to find time as I need to fix the spinlock and spinwait stuff anyway,
adding the
pause instruction...

the 9x has to be a typo.  The best I have heard was Eugene's 2.0 speedup running
two
tablebase compression programs at the same time...




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