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Subject: Re: Simple quad-opteron test

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 20:54:47 12/03/03

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On December 03, 2003 at 16:30:00, Slater Wold wrote:

>On December 03, 2003 at 16:24:22, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>>On December 03, 2003 at 15:20:53, Slater Wold wrote:
>>
>>>On December 03, 2003 at 14:59:03, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>>>
>>>>The other day, someone was discussing WAC.  As I have been working on the
>>>>quad-opteron machine at AMD, I took some time to run WAC three times, one
>>>>for 1 second per position, one for 5 and one for 10.  The results:
>>>>
>>>>===================== 1 seconds per position========================
>>>>test results summary:
>>>>
>>>>total positions searched..........         300
>>>>number right......................         297
>>>>number wrong......................           3
>>>>percentage right..................          99
>>>>percentage wrong..................           1
>>>>total nodes searched..............   111851199
>>>>average search depth..............         4.5
>>>>nodes per second..................     6072269
>>>>
>>>>===================== 5 seconds per position========================
>>>>test results summary:
>>>>
>>>>total positions searched..........         300
>>>>number right......................         298
>>>>number wrong......................           2
>>>>percentage right..................          99
>>>>percentage wrong..................           0
>>>>total nodes searched..............   320786849
>>>>average search depth..............         5.6
>>>>nodes per second..................     6299702
>>>>
>>>>=====================10 seconds per position========================
>>>>test results summary:
>>>>
>>>>total positions searched..........         300
>>>>number right......................         299
>>>>number wrong......................           1
>>>>percentage right..................          99
>>>>percentage wrong..................           0
>>>>total nodes searched..............   259379471
>>>>average search depth..............         4.6
>>>>nodes per second..................     6369720
>>>>
>>>>Benchmark:
>>>>
>>>>Crafty v19.7 (4 cpus)
>>>>
>>>>White(1): mt=4
>>>>max threads set to 4
>>>>White(1): bench
>>>>Running benchmark. . .
>>>>......
>>>>Total nodes: 109241860
>>>>Raw nodes per second: 6068992
>>>>Total elapsed time: 18
>>>>SMP time-to-ply measurement: 35.555556
>>>>White(1):
>>>>
>>>>That now includes the inline FirstOne()/LastOne()/PopCnt() 64 bit code I
>>>>wrote.  It is about 4-5% faster.  I have not written the attack stuff yet
>>>>but I suppose I might bite the bullet to see what happens...
>>>
>>>Might want to think about making the bench test a little longer too.  18 seconds
>>>to complete.  LOL
>>>
>>>And, I *REALLY* hope you're planning to use that machine at CCT6!
>>
>>
>>One vote yes.  one vote no.  :)
>
>Well, my point of view is, you're showing up with more HW than anyone else
>regardless.  If that's the case, why not show up with a monster?!  ;)

There are faster dual xeons than mine on ICC.  And dual AMDs as well,
including more than one dual opteron I have seen...

But if AMD says "OK" I'll try to send them a couple of DVDs with 3-4-5
endgame tables and give it a try...


>
>>The problem is if I make it longer, then it will crawl on slower machines.
>>
>>Probably there is no good benchmark to span pentium-133 thru this beast.  :)
>
>Just make it detect if CPUs > 2 then make the bench longer.  If you can detect a
>difference between SMP & NUMA, I know you can do that!  :)
>
>Imagine the bench command on the 16-way.  The CPUs won't even be able to spin-up
>to 100%!!  LOL
>
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