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

Author: Eugene Nalimov

Date: 19:36:35 05/01/04

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On May 01, 2004 at 18:20:09, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:

>On May 01, 2004 at 18:10:32, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>>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...
>
>8 ways are kind of NUMA, so forget it for crafty.

As well as 32-way Itanium on which I tested Crafty some time ago...

Thanks,
Eugene



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