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Subject: Re: Quad Op 1.8Ghz speedup

Author: Slater Wold

Date: 09:33:35 12/04/03

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On December 04, 2003 at 12:20:08, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On December 04, 2003 at 12:09:02, Slater Wold wrote:
>
>>Please take into consideration that Bob is *NOT* done with the 64-bit Crafty,
>>and these numbers aren't 'solid'.
>
>Let me add that these are positions that misbehave for various reasons,
>which is what I think originally caught your eye.  I would not particularly
>use WAC for a speedup test myself, I have a
>set of positions I normally run that includes a few tactical positions a
>few quiet positions, a few opening positions and a few endgame positions...
>
>Not that that is a better test, but it does have a bit more diversity.


Well, the Opteron + 19.7 does a LOT better now than before...at least on the 2x
level.


>>I ran a test a while back, on a dual AMD 1.73Ghz and two specific positions
>>where speedup is pretty ugly (or at least, odd).  You can read the original
>>thread here:  http://www.chess-archive.com/ccc.php?art_id=250157.
>>
>>My original results were:
>>
>>WAC.41
>>1k6/5RP1/1P6/1K6/6r1/8/8/8 w - -
>>
>>NPS using 1 CPU:  1503k
>>NPS using 2 CPUs: 1786k (1.19x)
>>
>>11th ply 1 CPU:  48.36s
>>11th ply 2 CPUs:  2.99s (16.17x - LOL)
>>
>>WAC.76
>>r1b1qrk1/2p2ppp/pb1pnn2/1p2pNB1/3PP3/1BP5/PP2QPPP/RN1R2K1 w - -
>>
>>NPS using 1 CPU:   804k
>>NPS using 2 CPUs: 1306k (1.62x)
>>
>>11th ply 1 CPU:  19.39s
>>11th ply 2 CPUs: 13.42s (1.44x)
>>
>>
>>And now the Opteron results:
>>
>>WAC.41
>>1k6/5RP1/1P6/1K6/6r1/8/8/8 w - -
>>
>>NPS using 1 CPU:  2480k
>>NPS using 2 CPUs: 4687k (1.89x)
>>NPS using 4 CPUs: 8660k (3.49x)
>>
>>11th ply 1 CPU:  1.72s
>>11th ply 2 CPUs: 0.93s (1.85x)
>>11th ply 4 CPUs: 0.69s (2.49x)
>>
>>12th ply 1 CPU:  4.74s
>>12th ply 2 CPUs: 2.56s (1.85x)
>>12th ply 4 CPUs: 1.71s (2.77x)
>>
>>
>>WAC.76
>>r1b1qrk1/2p2ppp/pb1pnn2/1p2pNB1/3PP3/1BP5/PP2QPPP/RN1R2K1 w - -
>>
>>NPS using 1 CPU:  1573k
>>NPS using 2 CPUs: 3046k (1.94x)
>>NPS using 4 CPUs: 5902k (3.75x)
>>
>>11th ply 1 CPU:  10.61s
>>11th ply 2 CPUs:  5.76s (1.84x)
>>11th ply 4 CPUs:  2.83s (3.75x)
>>
>>12th ply 1 CPU:  57.85s
>>12th ply 2 CPUs: 35.24s (1.64x)
>>12th ply 4 CPUs: 25.83s (2.23x)



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