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Subject: Re: Quad proc results (my results here)

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 15:10:32 05/01/04

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On May 01, 2004 at 15:18:33, Joachim Rang wrote:

>On May 01, 2004 at 15:06:24, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>>My results...  on a quad 700mhz xeon
>>
>>1cpu  289 secs   1.0 speedup    294K nps
>>2cpu  172 secs   1.7 speedup    571K nps
>>3cpu  127 secs   2.4 speedup    833K nps
>>4cpu  100 secs   2.9 speedup   1079K nps
>>
>>Unfortunately this machine was running nfs for the entire department so it
>>wasn't totally idle, but the numbers seem within "reason" of what I would
>>expect.  Note also that I didn't run multiple runs and average the times, so
>>there could be some random noise in the above as always...
>
>still below 3 even for such a SMP-Giant like Crafty.
>For an 8-way machine what do you expect?
>
>regards Joachim


My estimate is always speedup = 1 + (CPUS - 1) * .7 as a rough number.  Some
positions go higher, some go lower...

So figure about 6x on 8-way...  I have tested that myself.  16 and beyond are
not so clear yet...



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