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

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 21:04:49 05/01/04

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On May 01, 2004 at 22:36:35, Eugene Nalimov wrote:

>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


You should realize that our pitiful knowledge pales in the presence of the
world's foremost authority on everything.  I really don't see why anyone would
enter a tournament where his program plays since they have no chance against
his.

Wait.  Has he ever won one for real?

Wait again.  Seems that ICC is broken in that it shows that crafty vs diep has
looked like this (from crafty's perspective):  468 wins.  156 losses.  166
draws.  So maybe there _is_ hope for the rest of us???

I've never seen anyone that knows so much about everybody _else's_ programs.  Or
at least that _thinks_ he knows so much about everybody else's programs...

Fortunately the reality of actually playing in events catches up with the
fantasy-land claims and pronouncements...



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