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Subject: Re: Question: Itanium Info

Author: Eugene Nalimov

Date: 17:25:43 12/10/03

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On December 10, 2003 at 19:24:12, Brian Richardson wrote:

>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.

Ok, I found 900MHz/1.5Mb cache system nearby. Here are the results:

D:\Documents and Settings\eugenen>\\eugenen6\crafty\wcrafty.exe

Initializing multiple threads.
System is SMP, not NUMA.
EPD Kit revision date: 1996.04.21
unable to open book file [./book.bin].
book is disabled
unable to open book file [./books.bin].

Crafty v19.6 (1 cpus)

White(1): bench
Running benchmark. . .
......
Total nodes: 100409437
Raw nodes per second: 749324
Total elapsed time: 134
SMP time-to-ply measurement: 4.776119
White(1): quit

I expect 1GHz/3Mb cache system to be ~20% faster -- 10% due to higher frequency,
and 10% due to larger cache (or higher cache associativity -- I reported effect
of 1.5Mb cache vs. 3Mb cache here some time ago). 750knps*1.2 == 900knps, so it
will be roughly the number I gave from memory...

Thanks,
Eugene



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