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Subject: Re: Diep program kns test on quad opteron

Author: José de Jesús García Ruvalcaba

Date: 04:07:46 12/05/03

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On December 05, 2003 at 03:21:10, Russell Reagan wrote:

>On December 05, 2003 at 03:13:44, Derek Paquette wrote:
>
>>holy shit thats incredible speed,
>>why are they not using these in man vs machine? or at the WCCC???
>
>Because speed isn't everything. Diep was playing on a 500 processor machine at
>the WCCC. It was reported here that Diep was running at about 75 times its
>single cpu speed on the 500 processor machine. The quad Opteron only runs Diep
>at 3 times the single cpu speed. If a 75x speedup couldn't put Diep over the
>top, what is a 3x boost?

3x faster for a top program is a lot more than 3x faster for Diep (please note
that I have nothing against Vincent).
José.



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