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Subject: Re: 3.06 Xeon Test Results

Author: Vincent Diepeveen

Date: 05:44:18 04/10/03

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On April 09, 2003 at 17:58:21, Robert Hyatt wrote:

as usual you were asleep when replying. i did math for a single cpu. that
extrapolates to more cpu's as well.

If you first slowdown crafty in order to then get a better speedup from SMT
that's your choice.

>On April 09, 2003 at 17:02:34, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:
>
>>On April 09, 2003 at 11:52:48, Charles Worthington wrote:
>>
>>it shows that SMT is still in its childhood with the current P4s. Getting a % or
>>10 in nps speed from hyperthreading is not enough to get a positive speedup.
>>
>>Consider this.
>>
>>suppose fritz gets 1.7 speedup out of 2 processors.
>>suppose hyperthreading speeds up 10%.
>>
>>Then what is actual speedup?
>> 1.0 * 1.10 (speedup) * (1.7 / 2.0) = 0.935 which is SLOWER than 1.0 without.
>>
>>Easy math.
>>
>
>Poor math.  If it gets 1.7 out of a dual, and the single cpu version does 1M
>nodes per
>second, and hyper-threading brings that to 1.3M, then the effective speedup will
>.7 of
>that extra 30% which turns into 1.21 X faster in terms of time to solution.
>That does
>assume that SMT makes his raw speed 1.3X faster, and that with two equal
>processors
>his speedup is 1.7.
>
>Your math is bad.
>
>
>>>I ran the Deepfritzmark and Shreddermark tests with hyperthreading disabled then
>>>enabled with some very confusing results that I am hoping someone can help
>>>explain:
>>>
>>>Test set #1 Hyperthreading Disabled, 64MB Hash, Engine Parameters @ default
>>>
>>>Shredder 7.04:  Shreddermark: 2227 +- 0 (1.5s) 705kN/s
>>>
>>>Deep Fritz 7 :  Deepfritzmark: 2724 +- 44 (3.1s)  2252kN/s
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>Test set #2 Hyperthreading Enabled, 64MB Hash, Engine Parameters @ Default
>>>
>>>Shredder 7.04:  Shreddermark: 2227 +- 0 (1.5s) 803kN/s
>>>
>>>Deep Fritz 7 :  Deepfritzmark: 2476 +- 0 (3.2s) 2555kN/s
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>Test set #3: Hyperthreading Enabled, 32 MB Hash, Engine Parameters @ Default
>>>
>>>Shredder 7.04: Shreddermark: 2784 +- 0 (0.4s) 907kN/s
>>>
>>>Deep Fritz 7:  Deepfritzmark: 2476 +- 0 (3.4s) 2532kN/s
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>Test set #4; Hyperthreading enabled, 16MB Hash, engine parameters @ default
>>>
>>>Shredder 7.04;  Shreddermark: 2784 +- 0 (0.4s) 1008kN/s
>>>
>>>Deep fritz 7:  Deepfritzmark: 2476 +- 0 (4.5s) 2544 kN/s
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>This is somewhat confusing as Fritz scored the highest fritzmark with
>>>hyperthreading_disabled_ even though his kN/s were_far_lower. Shredder scored
>>>far better with it_enabled_ both in result, speed, and time to solution.
>>>Also Shredder seemed to benefit more from the smaller hash sizes where Fritz
>>>seemed relatively worsened by them. Does anyone have any insight as to these
>>>seemingly contradictory results? And would I be better to run Deep Fritz with
>>>the hyperthreading diasabled even though his kN/s is considerably lower?
>>>
>>>Charles



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