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

Author: Vincent Diepeveen

Date: 05:37:49 05/02/04

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

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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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