Computer Chess Club Archives


Search

Terms

Messages

Subject: Re: question about buying new hardware

Author: Vasik Rajlich

Date: 15:19:11 05/11/04

Go up one level in this thread


On May 11, 2004 at 09:05:42, Slater Wold wrote:

>On May 11, 2004 at 04:12:49, Vasik Rajlich wrote:
>
>>On May 11, 2004 at 03:32:25, Slater Wold wrote:
>>
>>>On May 11, 2004 at 02:06:46, Uri Blass wrote:
>>>
>>>>I plan to buy new hardware for WCCC and my question is which hardware is best
>>>>for movei.
>>>>
>>>>If people can run movei in the opening position and tell me nodes per second
>>>>then it may be productive for me in deciding about buying new hardware.
>>>>
>>>>I want to know nodes per second that I can get in the opening position
>>>>
>>>>I am interested in the result that I can get in different hardwares.
>>>>
>>>>I do not plan to implement parallel search but having 2 processors have the
>>>>advantage that I can test with pondering and get results that I can trust so I
>>>>did not decide if to buy a machine with one processor or 2 processors and if the
>>>>difference in speed between one processor and 2 processor is small enough then I
>>>>may decide to go for 2 processors.
>>>>
>>>>Uri
>>>
>>>AMD FX53 (2.4Ghz):
>>>
>>>Movei00_8_178  WB2 17 MB:
>>> 1   00:00  0.35   b1c3
>>> 2   00:00  0.09   b1c3 b8c6
>>> 2   00:00  0.10   d2d4
>>> 2   00:00  0.16   d2d4 b8c6
>>> 2   00:00  0.17   e2e4
>>> 2   00:00  0.21   e2e4 b8c6
>>> 3   00:00  0.40   e2e4 e7e5 f1c4
>>> 4   00:00  0.06   e2e4 e7e5 d1h5 b8c6
>>> 5   00:00  0.34   e2e4 d7d5 b1c3 g8f6 e4d5 f6d5 f1b5 c7c6 c3d5 d8d5
>>> 6   00:00  0.10   e2e4 e7e5 b1c3 f8c5 d1g4 g7g5
>>> 7   00:00  0.12   e2e4 d7d5 e4e5 b8c6 d2d4 c8f5 b1c3
>>> 7   00:00  0.13   d2d4
>>> 7   00:00  0.30   d2d4 e7e6 c1f4 b8c6 g1f3 f8b4 c2c3 b4e7
>>> 8   00:01  0.09   d2d4 g8f6 b1c3 d7d5 e2e3 c8g4 f1e2 g4f5
>>> 9   00:01  0.11   d2d4 g8f6 e2e3 e7e6 g1f3 b8c6 f1b5 f8b4 c1d2 b4d6
>>> 9   00:01  0.12   g1f3
>>> 9   00:01  0.11   d2d4 g8f6 e2e3 e7e6 g1f3 b8c6 f1b5 f8b4 c1d2 b4d6
>>>10   00:02  0.10   d2d4 g8f6 b1c3 e7e6 g1f3 f8b4 c1g5 h7h6 g5f4 b8c6
>>>10   00:03  0.11   b1c3
>>>10   00:04  0.18   b1c3 b8c6 d2d4 e7e6 g1f3 f8b4 e2e4 d7d5 c1g5 g8e7
>>>11   00:06  0.15   b1c3 d7d5 d2d4 g8f6 g1f3 e7e6 c1f4 f8b4 e2e3 b4c3 b2c3 b8c6
>>>11   00:07  0.16   d2d4
>>>11   00:12  0.19   d2d4 g8f6 g1f3 e7e6 e2e3 b8c6 f1b5 a7a6 b5c6 d7c6 b1c3
>>>12   00:24  0.11   d2d4 g8f6 g1f3 e7e6 e2e3 d7d5 b1c3 f8b4 f3e5 e8g8 a2a3 b4a5
>>>
>>>676,440 N/sec
>>>
>>>I would venture to say optimized and profiled with Whidbey, it'd be over 700k.
>>>
>>>Send me the source, and I'll tell you what it runs with Whidbey 32-bit & 64-bit.
>>> ;)
>>
>>BTW - where did you get this thing? Is it much different than the compiler that
>>comes with the 2003 DDK?
>
>MS PDC.  Very.
>
>>In the case of Rybka going to 64 bits (2003 DDK compiler) gives an extra 30% or
>>so.
>
>You could probably expect another 15% - 20% from Whidbey, compared to the DDK.
>
>>Thanks,
>>Vas

Thanks.

Actually it looks like it's also available, as pre-alpha, on MSDN subscriptions.

The Visual Studio 2005 Community Technology Preview

Weighing in at ... 2.6 GB.

Vas



This page took 0 seconds to execute

Last modified: Thu, 15 Apr 21 08:11:13 -0700

Current Computer Chess Club Forums at Talkchess. This site by Sean Mintz.