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Subject: Re: a number and two questions for bob

Author: Gian-Carlo Pascutto

Date: 23:50:19 05/05/04

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On May 05, 2004 at 18:24:11, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>I see 16-cpu speedups vary from 6.0 to 15.3.  That is not "very small
>variability" if we are talking about the same thing.  The numbers are all over
>the chart, just like current parallel numbers are with Crafty...  4-cpu tests
>were not nearly so variable, but that is the difference between DTS and the
>current less-effective algorithm...  But even 4 cpu tests varied from 2.6 to
>4.0.  Current Crafty would almost certainly produce 1-2 results > 4.0, why DTS
>did not is anybody's guess...

Over half the of the 2 cpu speedup numbers are 2.0 exactly, yet none of them
is > 2.

You truly are a man of amazing coincidences.

--
GCP



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