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Subject: Re: Crafty and NUMA

Author: Vincent Diepeveen

Date: 10:10:23 09/03/03

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On September 03, 2003 at 11:52:01, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On September 03, 2003 at 02:24:00, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:
>
>>On September 02, 2003 at 22:34:49, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>>
>>>>Been working a year fulltime now :)
>>>>
>>>
>>>So?  It took you over a year to get your parallel search working.  It took
>>>me weeks.
>>>
>>>:)
>>
>>In all fairness, he did a full DTS implementation, including rewriting the
>>program to a nonrecursive search, while you took an easy way out.
>
>_I_ did the _original_ DTS implementation, don't forget.  It didn't take
>me years.  I started to work on it in March of 1987 and I finished my Ph.D.
>completely in August of 1988, which included months of testing to produce the
>data.
>
>
>>
>>Diep's parallel performance does seem to be better than what you and I are
>>getting.
>>
>>I wouldn't make that design decision for the common 2 or 4 way machines
>>you are most likely to end up working with, but given that he's now
>>working with 512, I'm sure it has payed off handsomely in the meantime.
>>
>>Likewise, optimizing a program for Opteron NUMA is a whole different animal
>>than optimizing it for a 512 CPU NUMA Sun Altix.
>>
>>I agree optimizing Crafty for the Opteron won't take an entire rewrite,
>>but please don't go claiming that 'NUMA-Crafty' will run well on any NUMA
>>machine.
>
>It _will_ "run on any NUMA machine."  If you want to say it won't run well
>with 512 cpus, I agree.  But then again, it won't run well on 512 CPUS if
>the machine is pure SMP either.  The issues are different.
>
>However, Crafty _does_ have some stuff to make it run reasonably well on 32
>cpu boxes.  I've already done that.

Ok here my statement. Crafty won't run well on 16 processors of P7 from the
TERAS supercomputer.

It will be a horror & co show i am sure of it.

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>>--
>>GCP



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