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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