Author: Charles Worthington
Date: 10:53:13 02/18/03
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On February 18, 2003 at 13:47:58, Dann Corbit wrote: >On February 18, 2003 at 13:11:24, Charles Worthington wrote: > >>I have noticed a great deal of bias toward Intel products on this site so I have >>decided to conduct an experiment using the fastest Intel Xeon technology and >>AMDs fastest system which I assume is the 2600. If not someone please correct me >>before I order it. I propose to test both systems using Deep fritz 7 with hash >>settings of 32,64,128,256, 512, and 1024MB. Both systems will be equipped with >>the best technology offered by current manufacturers. There will be no >>overclocking. They will be tested "as is" out of the box using the Deep Fritz 7 >>Program and Deepfritzmark test. I will post the pictures here for all hash >>settings then we can lay the speculation to rest. Someone please leave me a post >>telling me which AMD Motherboard would be best to conduct this test with. As for >>Xeon testing I will conduct one test with hyperthreading enabled and one with it >>disabled. I know everyone likes to clock the AMD processors up but I will not >>overclock the Xeons (even if I could). They are far too expensive to be >>tinkering with and I doubt that the Intel board would support it anyhow. So we >>put them side to side and let them shoot it out and then it ends the speculation >>once and for all. > >I think a test is a very good idea. I know Slater Wold usually has some very >fast hardware, so he might have something to benchmark against. Perhaps a >uniform series of tests can be created, and then run on many different systems >so that we can create a performance table. > >One suggestion would be to set crafty to 100 million nodes on a dozen positions >or so, and we could see who is fastest to target. Various commercial benchmarks >will also be interesting (Fritzmark, etc.) > >Nature of the positions and available tablebase files will be a consideration, >of course. I will ensure that if such a test as you speak of is conducted then I would certainly use equivalent speed hard drives and identical tablebases for each machine. Thank you for your suggestions :-)
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