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Subject: Re: Question: Itanium Info

Author: Brian Richardson

Date: 10:44:59 12/11/03

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On December 10, 2003 at 20:25:43, Eugene Nalimov wrote:

>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

And the version 18.15 results (19.6 was not out back in January)?



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