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Subject: Re: Perft benchmark

Author: Albert Bertilsson

Date: 05:15:34 12/12/03

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On December 12, 2003 at 07:24:47, Ingo Bauer wrote:

>Hi
>
>The next thing would be to see the position (at ply 3) that the comps are
>crunching on at the moment :-) (but pls no movement for each calculated pos :-)
>)

If we attempt to calculate perft(12) I'll include that to the client. I already
have most of the code in some bits.

>
>Because you have the KNPS now you can either ask if someone is entering
>information about the processor/speed/hash (or identify these three values by
>the client) and you would have a nice database about relativ processor-speeds
>itself.
>
>With a database big enough you could see when the pocessors reach the point
>where it is sensless to add more hash!

For perft(8) your computer showed that going from 512 to 1024 gives an extra 8%
in performance, I guess that a few GB of hash is where the performance gain will
be very little.

>
>...
>
>Bye Ingo
>
>
>>I've collected some info posted in the distributed perft thread.
>>
>>Using Sharper 0.17p to do perft calculations with hash table has given the
>>following results:
>>
>><PRE>
>>Hardware					Hash	CS	Nodes		MNPS
>>Athlon XP (Barton) at real 2400MHz		256	51254	84998978956	165
>>P4 3.06Ghz					256	49801	84998978956	170
>>Athlon XP (Barton) at real 2400MHz		512	45422	84998978956	187
>>Athlon XP 2.5GHz, 200fsb(400DDR) with 3-4-4-10	512	43848	84998978956	193
>>Athlon XP (Barton) at real 2400MHz		1024	42027	84998978956	202
>></pre>
>>
>>Single cpu machines counting 202 million nodes per second is really impressive.
>>
>>If you have a machine that you'd like to bench, download the distributed perft
>>client (Sharper 0.17p is included with it). Set the hash size with "hashsize
>>XXX" (XXX = number of megabytes of ram) and run "perfthash 8" and report the
>>time it took to finnish the calculation.
>>
>>I'm going to add some lower spec. machines later.
>>
>>/Regards Albert



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