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Subject: Re: Pentium 4 and hyperthreading (to Charles Worthington)

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 13:19:48 02/19/03

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On February 19, 2003 at 14:17:55, Steffen Basting wrote:

>Hi!
>I've posted some benchmark results on my PIV 3.06 earlier and your 1.33 factor
>in speed up seems to be a little too optimistic. Crafty benefits most from
>hyperthreading (about 20%), the usual nodes per second increase (Deep Shredder 6
>and Deep Fritz 7) is about 10% at maximum. Perhaps Xeons perform better, but I
>don't think the hyperthreading performance differs too much.
>
>----- Crafty, 1 Thread -----
>White(1): hash 96M
>hash table memory = 96M bytes.
>White(1): smpmt=0
>parallel threads disabled.
>White(1): bench
>Running benchmark. . .
>......
>Total nodes: 48447803
>Raw nodes per second: 1211195
>Total elapsed time: 40
>SMP time-to-ply measurement: 16.000000
>
>----- Crafty, 2 Threads -----
>White(1): hash 96M
>hash table memory = 96M bytes.
>White(1): smpmt=2
>max threads set to 2
>White(1): bench
>Running benchmark. . .
>......
>Total nodes: 48586305
>Raw nodes per second: 1429008
>Total elapsed time: 34
>SMP time-to-ply measurement: 18.823529
>
>----- Shredder 6-Mark, 1 Thread -----
>655+-44, 490kn/s
>
>----- Shredder 6-Mark, 2 Threads -----
>696+-45, 502kn/s
>
>----- Deep Fritz 7-Mark, 1 Thread -----
>1433+-0, 1193kn/s
>
>----- Deep Fritz 7-Mark, 2 Threads -----
>1602+-0, 1352kn/s
>
>Regards, Steffen.
>
>PS: The Crafty version I used was 18.6-smp from Bob's site, perhaps newer
>versions are optimized for hyperthreading?


Newer versions have a better spinlock and spinwait, but the difference it not
really significant...




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