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Subject: Re: Crafty MPC ( Is it Hyper Threading?)

Author: Jeremiah Penery

Date: 17:09:09 09/13/03

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On September 13, 2003 at 19:02:00, Sune Fischer wrote:

>On September 13, 2003 at 18:50:31, Jeremiah Penery wrote:
>
>>Can't you just calculate the speedup (in time to solution, or whatever measure
>>you want) and figure effective NPS from that?
>
>Well, you would need to run a serial search to compare with, so you won't get
>on-the-fly nps.

That's true.

>Still, you'd have to be careful in how you compute it if you want to compare
>with a serial search.
>You might be tempted to use the ratio of times to solution, but this wouldn't be
>the nps I'm interested in, move ordering plays a role here.
>Ie. on a dual you could theoreticly see greater than two speedups, but you
>should _never_ see greater than two cpu-loads / nps, simply theoreticly
>impossible.
>
>So depends what kind of "efficiency" you want, and I want the effective nps. :)

If you want to calculate the ratio of effective nodes/time, I'm not really sure
how you plan to do it.  How do you define an effective node, first of all?  The
serial search duplicates nodes often enough on its own that I don't see a way to
calculate a difference between wasted serial nodes and wasted parallel nodes.
Or am I just completely off-base here?



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