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Subject: Re: 3.06 Xeon Test Results

Author: Keith Evans

Date: 09:34:13 04/10/03

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On April 10, 2003 at 11:11:52, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:

>On April 10, 2003 at 11:07:06, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>>On April 10, 2003 at 08:44:18, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:
>>
>>>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.
>>
>>I did math that extrapolates to _everything_.
>>
>>If I get 1.7X speedup for two cpus, I will get _some_ speedup no matter how slow
>>the
>>second processor is.
>>
>>Which was my point.
>
>with SMT that is not the case. the second cpu in SMT delivers somewhere between
>0% and 20%.
>
>If it is 10% like it is for most programs then:
>
>1.1 speed is what you get out of single P4 with smt.
>
>1.7 / 2  * 1.1 = 0.935 which is slower than single cpu.
>
>Which is my point.

Why are you dividing 1.7 by 2?

I thought that Bob already measured this on a single Xeon with SMT and got a
speedup of 1.1 or so.



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