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Subject: Re: Some numbers about opteron's scalabitlity

Author: Bo Persson

Date: 04:16:09 08/01/03

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On July 31, 2003 at 11:09:19, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On July 31, 2003 at 05:22:05, Vincent Lejeune wrote:
>
>>
>>http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=10785
>>
>>...
>>Single CPU+Hyperthreading P4c-2.6 800 Mhz FSB:
>>One job at a time 82.20 seconds
>>Two jobs at a time 138.21 seconds
>>Scaled 1.18 times.
>>
>>Dual p4-3.0/533 Mhz FSB (fastest dual p4 made)
>>One job at a time 84.98 seconds
>>Two jobs at a time 155.92 seconds
>>Scaled 1.09 times.
>
>Something is wrong there.
>
>This means that (a) whomever ran the benchmark didn't know what he was
>doing or (b) he didn't have both cpus running.

Or, (c) his intension was to measure memory througput, which might be important
to him. Otherwise (a).  :-)

"He has compared single to dual Opteron systems by looking at these SPEC results
14.1 SpecFP 2000 and 26.7 SpecFP 2000 here, which he says shows a a 1.89
speedup, on what he describes as a fairly memory bandwidth intensive benchmark."


Bo Persson
bop2@telia.com



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