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Subject: Re: The guy will be very disappointed. He will not come close to 3000kN/

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 15:18:10 02/19/03

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On February 19, 2003 at 14:56:06, Charles Worthington wrote:

>On February 19, 2003 at 11:50:42, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>>On February 18, 2003 at 02:54:19, Drexel,Michael wrote:
>>
>>>Dual Athlon 1900+          1590 kn/s
>>>
>>>PIV 3.06 GHz               1310 kn/s
>>
>>
>>
>>That says it all.  duals will be 2620.  Factor in another 20-30% for
>>hyper-threading
>>and he will get there.  2620 * 1.2 (20%)=3144K, 2620*1.3 (30%)=3406K.  His 3M
>>is certainly within reach and then some, and his xeon has a bigger cache IIRC
>>(512K
>>vs 256K)
>>
>
>
>
>Thank you Bob for confirming my math. It's nice to see that someone can still do
>the math and come up with same figures I do. Of course math doesn't lie. At the
>very least I will get my 2500-2600 even if the hyperthreading didn't exist. But
>since it_does_exist and since it_will_exceed the conservative 1.2 multiplier I
>tend to agree with you. It just seems so unreal to look at those figures. The
>machine that fought Kramnik was not that fast even. I guess I have gotten used
>to seeing so many 2200 kNs duals on the server that the reality of it wont hit
>me until i see the benchmark. Most intel tests indicate a hyperthreading
>multiplier of 1.33 to 1.37 for applications that are good with utilizing
>multiple threads....which fritz certainly is.

Note that fritz might not be hyper-threading friendly yet.  A change for
spinlocks and
spinwaits is necessary for max performance.  I don't know if it has been done
for fritz,
although it was done for Crafty as soon as I got my dual...


>>>
>>>Athlon XP2800+             1230 kn/s
>>>
>>>Athlon XP2600+             1160 kn/s
>>>
>>>Athlon XP2400+             1100 kn/s
>>>
>>>PIV 2.67 GHz               1070 kn/s
>>>
>>>Athlon XP2100+              960 kn/s
>>>
>>>Athlon XP2000+              940 kn/s
>>>
>>>Athlon XP1900+              900 kn/s
>>>
>>>PIV 2.26 GHz                880 kn/s
>>>
>>>Athlon XP1800+              830 kn/s
>>>
>>>Athlon XP1700+              805 kn/s
>>>
>>>PIV 2.0 GHz                 780 kn/s
>>>
>>>Athlon 1400C                770 kn/s
>>>
>>>Celeron 1500                760 kn/s
>>>
>>>Celeron 1400                690 kn/s
>>>
>>>PIV 1.8 GHz                 660 kn/s
>>>
>>>Duron 1300                  640 kn/s
>>>
>>>Celeron 1200                560 kn/s
>>>
>>>Intel PIII,1Ghz             540 kn/s
>>>
>>>Athlon 900                  470 kn/s
>>>
>>>Celeron 600                 295 kn/s
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>F7,DF7 64 MB Hash
>>>
>>>
>>>I could easily reach >3000 rating with my XP 2000+ on Playchess server, simply
>>>by preparing a special opening book.
>>>Others cheat and play with 2 machines and two Internet connections to get a high
>>>rating.
>>>What for?



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