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Subject: Re: needing advice on new dual processor computer

Author: Vincent Diepeveen

Date: 03:52:43 07/08/03

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On July 07, 2003 at 17:28:06, Tom Kerrigan wrote:

>On July 07, 2003 at 15:20:15, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:
>
>>sign in now for 15% speedup i would sign blindfolded. 15% from 250Ghz =
>>37.5Ghz.
>
>A 15% speedup from 250GHz = 287.5GHz, not 37.5GHz.
>
>You mean "efficiency" every time you say speedup.
>
>-Tom

Speedup as it is in all the ICCA journals from the 80s and onwards is the number
of times you are faster out of n processors when compared to 1 processor of such
a system.

So if i would get the blessed efficiency of 15% out of 500 processors that is

0.15 * 500 = 75 times speedup

However to compare it to the speed of a K7 1Ghz it is interesting to express it
in Ghz in this case: 37.5 Ghz

So it effectively then 37.5 times faster than a K7 at 1 Ghz, assuming that K7
has a hashtable of 250GB.

Most programmers talk always about speedup, but that's for a fixed amount of
cpu's they always have. Like 2.

However with many cpu's i cannot always test with the same amount of CPUs so
speedup efficiency is a better form then to measure than speedup.

Best regards,
Vincent



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