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Subject: Re: SURPRISING RESULTS P4 Xeon dual 2.8Ghz

Author: Gian-Carlo Pascutto

Date: 11:38:22 12/17/02

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On December 17, 2002 at 12:50:48, Matt Taylor wrote:

>Actually it doesn't work like that. The CPU has an existing bandwidth of 3
>micro-ops/cycle.

I was under the impression the P4 was much more limited than that
(don't remember the details though).

>Now, I am no parallel researcher, but even my parallel code doesn't suffer
>overheads so large that it can't gain from HT.

Depends on what the problem is.

>You never said what "2 processes" was. Is it one physical CPU with HT or two
>physical CPUs without HT?

2 physical CPUS with hyperthreading enabled running 2 processes

(The case that breaks the scheduler)

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GCP



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