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Subject: Re: 3.06 Xeon Test Results

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 07:55:25 04/11/03

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On April 11, 2003 at 09:07:46, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:

>On April 10, 2003 at 20:32:06, Tom Kerrigan wrote:
>
>Tom can you please publicly say whether you disagree or agree with this math.
>
>Bob claims next:
>  a) 30% increased speed in nps for SMT for crafty
>  b) 3.0 speedup out of 4 processors.
>
>What is his speedup out 4 threads on a dual Xeon then versus 2 threads non-SMT
>on the same dual Xeon?
>
>If he shows a speedup in TIME do you agree then that bob's trick is
>to not show how many nodes a second he needs for each ply?

There is _always_ a "trick" according to you.

So, what do you want to measure?  I posted data showing that SMT on my dual 2.8
speeds things up both in raw NPS, and in terms of "time to solution".

Since you like _neither_ of those measures, what do we try next?  Size of the
executables
for non-SMP vs SMP?  MD5SUM for each?

You seem to have _no_ idea of what you want to prove, other than your stuff
works and
everybody else's doesn't.

What does NPS per ply have to do with _anything_?  I've never played in a chess
tournament
where the TD says "the time control is 1.1 billion nodes per move, average.




>
>Which would mean simply that his 30% speedup in nps is simply not true.
>
>>On April 10, 2003 at 11:11:52, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:
>>
>>>with SMT that is not the case. the second cpu in SMT delivers somewhere between
>>>0% and 20%.
>>
>>It amazes me how simple your train of thought must have been to come up with
>>this one. Was it something like this?
>>
>>* Hyperthreading gives you 2 logical processors
>>* Hyperthreading speeds things up by 0-20%
>>
>>Therefore, your 2nd logical processor must be 0-20% as fast as the first.
>>
>>Brillant!
>>
>>-Tom



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