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Subject: Re: Dr. Hyatt: Does Crafty 19.6 have more knowledge than preceding versi

Author: Vincent Lejeune

Date: 04:05:30 12/08/03

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On December 08, 2003 at 00:12:38, Eugene Nalimov wrote:

>On December 07, 2003 at 23:30:56, Jay Urbanski wrote:
>
>>For a dual processor system, Opteron is the fastest.
>>
>>Opteron 2.2GHz
>>http://www.spec.org/cpu2000/results/res2003q4/cpu2000-20031117-02634.html
>>
>>Crafty base ratio 35.0
>>
>>Itanium 1.5GHz
>>
>>http://www.spec.org/cpu2000/results/res2003q3/cpu2000-20030711-02391.html
>>
>>Crafty base ratio 28.4
>>
>>This of course doesn't take advantage of all the NUMA stuff you just put into
>>19.6.
>
>NUMA stuff will not change runtime of 4 independent Crafty copies with any
>decent OS.
>
>>It also doesn't take into account the factor of at least 3 price differential
>>between the two, or the fact that there isn't a whole lot of software written
>>for Itanium out there.
>
>I don't believe there is 3x price difference between Opteron and Itanium
>systems, at least for quad ones.
>
>I also don't think there is lot of software written for Opteron out there as
>well. I think the opposite is true -- there is more native Itanium software than
>there is native Opteron software :-)
>
>I have both quad Itanium2 and Opteron in my office. For Crafty Opteron is
>somewhat faster -- after lot of work. Without that work single-CPU Opteron was
>faster than single-CPU Itanium2, but quad Itanium2 was faster than quad Opteron.

What was the Mhz for both, please ?



>
>Lot of bright people worked to speed up Crafty on Opteron, including lead
>developers of NT :-) Not sure that some arbitrary application will have such
>attention.
>
>You can look at TPC-C results for quad Opteron and Itanium systems. I think you
>would be surprised. You can also look at the TPC-C results for Opteron with more
>than 4 CPUs -- and please let me know when you'll find those results.
>
>Thanks,
>Eugene



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