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Subject: Re: Definitely 2.3 mil.

Author: Aaron Gordon

Date: 18:18:31 02/21/03

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On February 21, 2003 at 20:32:25, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On February 21, 2003 at 19:49:55, Aaron Gordon wrote:
>
>>On February 21, 2003 at 18:08:58, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>>
>>>On February 21, 2003 at 17:37:35, Aaron Gordon wrote:
>>>
>>>>On February 21, 2003 at 08:04:18, Mike Byrne wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>On February 21, 2003 at 08:02:34, Mike Byrne wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>On February 21, 2003 at 07:14:47, Charles Worthington wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>On February 21, 2003 at 07:05:22, Charles Worthington wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>On February 21, 2003 at 06:47:11, Mike Byrne wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>On February 21, 2003 at 04:46:53, Charles Worthington wrote:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>Bob what program is required for me to conduct benchmark tests with Crafty?
>>>>>>>>>>Could you please e-mail it or post a link here to it? Thank you.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>Charles,
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>You have it, the "crafty" program has a built in benchmark ....start crafty in
>>>>>>>>>dos mode (console) with no crafty.rc file ( a plain taxt file you create with
>>>>>>>>>engine parameters - but in this case - do not have a crafty.rc file in the same
>>>>>>>>>directory as crafty).
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>Type word "bench" at the command prompt.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>Mike
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>Thanks Mike. I haven't set the Crafty you sent me up yet so I didn't know. In
>>>>>>>>all honesty I have no Idea  how to set it up to run on the Chessbase server. The
>>>>>>>>Crafty that comes with fritz is already set up so I have never had to set one up
>>>>>>>>yet. The other foreign progs are easy just drop in the  eng and dll and you are
>>>>>>>>done. This does not look so easy. :-)
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>640 kNs.....Not good :-)
>>>>>>
>>>>>>on your new  machine??
>>>>>
>>>>>ok I see it in your title ...that is respectable for 1.2Ghz Celeron -- it's in
>>>>>the ballpark -- I think a dual 3 Ghz will get 3M nps....
>>>>
>>>>Hyatts Dual xeon 2.8GHz only gets 2.1 million in the benchmark..
>>>>If you scale it up to 3.06x2 + HT you'll only see about 2.3 million.
>>>
>>>I won't try to predict that performance, it needs testing.  The 3.06 xeons
>>>have 533mhz FSB, while my 2.8s are 400.  That is a difference above and beyond
>>>the raw clock speed.
>>
>>When I did testing vs Athlon SDR systems and DDR systems I noticed next to no
>>difference in Crafty's performance. Doubling bandwidth made less than a 2%
>>increase (if even that). Here is the graph I did back then, all "Thunderbird"
>>systems are SDR, all AthlonXP's are DDR. I also included 1GHz/100fsb Athlon
>>Tbird results vs 1GHz/133fsb results. Here is the list:
>>
>>http://speedycpu.dyndns.org/crafty/c1900-bench.jpg
>>
>>So you can compare: AthlonXP 1600+'s are 1.4GHz, compare with Tbird 1.4GHz.
>>AthlonXP 1500+'s are 1.33GHz, compare with the Tbird 1.33.
>
>Did you compare on dual boxes?  The faster bus shows up there with more
>effect...

I haven't yet, I could see if Matt Taylor or Sean Mintz would participate in the
test though. Perhaps run default clock, 133fsb but bench the memory @ 133 and
then at 100mhz. Might be interesting to see what happens.

>>
>>>>Crafty v19.4 (1 cpus)
>>>>
>>>>White(1): mt=4
>>>>max threads set to 4
>>>>White(1): bench
>>>>Running benchmark. . .
>>>>......
>>>>Total nodes: 104415743
>>>>Raw nodes per second: 2130933
>>>>Total elapsed time: 49
>>>>SMP time-to-ply measurement: 13.061224
>>>>White(1): end



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