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Subject: Re: Question: Itanium Info

Author: Brian Richardson

Date: 16:24:12 12/10/03

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On December 10, 2003 at 18:38:03, Eugene Nalimov wrote:

>On December 09, 2003 at 20:22:16, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>>On December 09, 2003 at 16:12:46, Brian Richardson wrote:
>>
>>>On December 09, 2003 at 09:52:34, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>>>
>>>>On December 08, 2003 at 20:59:26, Slater Wold wrote:
>>>>
>>>
>>>snipped
>>>
>>>>>Ok, that's the itanium doing 32.  Anyone got anything with it doing 64?  Or did
>>>>>it suck there too?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>The original was not very good.  Itanium-2 (Mckinley) is _very_ good.  Close
>>>>to the opteron even though it is clocked at 1/2 the opteron's speed.
>>>
>>>Actually, McKinley was also pretty poor, IIRC.  I had emailed Bob some Crafty
>>>bench command test results.  Now the 3rd generation Madison is much better.
>>
>>
>>Eugene was close to 1M nodes per second at 1ghz.  I don't think I have his
>>numbers immediately handy but he might supply them again...
>
>I don't remember exact numbers, but on 1GHz Itanium2 (McKinley) Crafty got
>something like 900-1000knps when executing "bench" command. Not great, but
>reasonable good number.
>
>On 1.5GHz Itanium2 (Madison) Crafty is getting 1,357knps.
>
>If necessary I can send executable to Bob, so any volunteer can run his/her own
>tests.
>
>Thanks,
>Eugene

The 900Knps was for 2 CPUs; 1 CPU was about 500Knps, according to the log files
(note for Crafty 18.15, Intel compiler, no assembler, no profiling).

Non-recompiled 32bit binary was _much_ slower, of course.



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