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

Author: Matthew Hull

Date: 12:33:55 02/13/03

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On February 13, 2003 at 15:09:28, Tom Kerrigan wrote:

>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...


On my 500mhz PIII, Crafty 18.15 does 117k nps.  I don't think a 300mhz Athlon
could do 225k nps.

Hmmm indeed.


>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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