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Subject: Re: crafty speedup on amd

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 19:55:31 11/23/03

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On November 23, 2003 at 22:48:29, Zach Wegner wrote:

>On November 23, 2003 at 21:04:43, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>>On November 23, 2003 at 20:57:01, Sean Mintz wrote:
>>
>>>I did a test of the latest crafty (19.5) using an executable I made with Intel C
>>>5.0 (/Ox /G6 /Gr /Ob2 /Qipo optimizations).  My machine is a dual 1.2 ghz athlon
>>>MP running at 1.35 ghz with 150mhz fsb.
>>>
>>>My crafty.rc file has this:
>>>
>>>ansi off
>>>mode normal
>>>adaptive 1.4M 6M 192M 1M 48M
>>>smpmt 2
>>>book on
>>>tbpath f:\chess\tablebases\
>>>cache 8M
>>>learn 7
>>>ponder on
>>>swindle on
>>>flag on
>>>log off
>>>exit
>>>
>>>---
>>>Crafty v19.5 (2 cpus)
>>>
>>>White(1): mt 0
>>>parallel threads disabled.
>>>White(1): bench
>>>Running benchmark. . .
>>>......
>>>Total nodes: 100409437
>>>Raw nodes per second: 772380
>>>Total elapsed time: 130
>>>SMP time-to-ply measurement: 4.923077
>>>White(1): quit
>>>---
>>>
>>>---
>>>Crafty v19.5 (2 cpus)
>>>
>>>White(1): bench
>>>Running benchmark. . .
>>>......
>>>Total nodes: 98693325
>>>Raw nodes per second: 1542083
>>>Total elapsed time: 64
>>>SMP time-to-ply measurement: 10.000000
>>>White(1): quit
>>>---
>>>
>>>1542083 / 772380 = 1.9965 x faster
>>>
>>>
>>>Sean Mintz
>>
>>
>>Told you it was better.  :)
>
>this looks rather suspect. the multi-threaded bench is searching less nodes than
>the single-threaded. are there any explanations for that? or are you just that
>good?


That happens all the time.  That's not the number I look at here.  I
look _only_ at the raw NPS numbers...  that compares CPU speed without
any SMP oddities...



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