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Subject: Re: Crafty Opteron Performance Data

Author: Eugene Nalimov

Date: 20:41:11 06/15/03

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On June 14, 2003 at 01:48:07, Brian Richardson wrote:

>On June 13, 2003 at 22:44:57, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:
>
>>On June 13, 2003 at 19:28:34, Brian Richardson wrote:
>>
>>Hello your opteron performance is not correct.
>>
>>If you native compile 64 bits with GCC at the opteron crafty with branch
>>optimizations (that means you compile 1 time with profile option then run it for
>>a number of minutes then recompile, gives big extra speed) and then run dual you
>>should get about 4 million nodes a second. And not a node less than that.
>>
>>Even at specint the 64 bits gcc compiled version is about 60% faster than bob's
>>own machine has. specint is not using even inline assembly nor profile
>>reinforced code (which matters really a lot at the opteron and near to zero at
>>the itanium2 becuase it's a buggy predication processor).
>>
>>Best regards,
>>Vincent
>>
>
>I forgot to mention that this was under Windows 2003.
>I have not found a native code Opteron compiler yet.
>
>Does anyone have suggestions? (besides running Linux)?

Visual C, of course :-)

And your Itanium numbers are much slower than mine, even when I am using
publicly available 64-bit Visual C, not the latest and greatest we have here...

Thanks,
Eugene

>>>Note the time differences between versions, and the relative SMP scaling.
>>>
>>>	                Version	CPUs	Total   SMP             Raw nodes
>>>                                        elapsed time-to-ply     per second
>>>                                        time
>>>Opteron 244 (1.7GHz)	19.03	2	28	22.857143	1976833
>>>Opteron 244 (1.7GHz)	19.03	1	43	14.883721	1234812
>>>AMD 1900+ (1.6GHz)	19.03	2	39	16.410256	1408076
>>>AMD 1900+ (1.6GHz)	19.03	1	56	11.428571	948159
>>>Opteron 244 (1.7GHz)	18.15	2	48	13.333333	1807684
>>>Opteron 244 (1.7GHz)	18.15	1	77	8.311688	1097373
>>>AMD 1900+ (1.6GHz)	18.15	2	71	9.014085	1278866
>>>AMD 1900+ (1.6GHz)	18.15	1	104	6.153846	812478
>>>Itanium2 1GHz	        18.15	2	112	5.714286	959705
>>>Itanium2 1GHz	        18.15	1	186	3.44086	        524126
>>>
>>>Note all runs with:
>>>hash table memory =       384M bytes.
>>>pawn hash table memory =   24M bytes.
>>>EGTB cache memory =         1M bytes.



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