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Subject: Re: IA-64 vs OOOE (attn Taylor, Hyatt)

Author: Tom Kerrigan

Date: 12:09:28 02/13/03

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On February 12, 2003 at 21:07:57, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>>>>>The Cray T932 was the last 64 bit machine they built that I used.  And it
>>>>How many NPS does Crafty get on it?
>>>about 7M.
>>>And that was Cray Blitz, not Crafty.  I have not tried to run Crafty on a Cray,
>>
>>7M per processor? How many processors did those Crays come with? 32? So Crazy
>>Blitz was searching 224M NPS? I stand corrected, the T932 is several times
>>faster than any other processor ever made.
>No.  7M total as I said, spread over 32 processors (actually we only used 31
>on that machine so that one could be dedicated to handling interrupts and the
>like to avoid unnecessary context switches).

I guess I can count on you to cite MP numbers when discussing UP performance.

It's also apparently too much to ask to run the _same program_ on two platforms
to compare their performance.

That said, 7M/31 = 225k NPS. So at 500MHz, it runs about as fast as a 300MHz
Athlon (Crafty NPS)... Hmmm... Well, probably a slower Athlon, given the
relative memory latencies... Yeah, somehow you're not making the case that Cray
processors are super awesome and their compilers eliminate the need for OOOE...

-Tom



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