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Subject: Re: More parallel search data from my dual xeon

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 07:59:42 05/12/04

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On May 12, 2004 at 09:34:14, Anthony Cozzie wrote:

>On May 12, 2004 at 04:57:35, Aaron Gordon wrote:
>
>>1.856 speedup here in iteration time. May want to check over my numbers, falling
>>asleep at the keyboard trying to get all this done at this hour :P Whats weird
>>is I got a pretty good speedup on the last two that had slowdown problems for
>>you. Crafty was v19.6 compiled w/ the Intel C 5.0.1 compiler.
>>
>>I'll do the second 2cpu run tomorrow and post it along w/ this, for now, sleep!
>>:)
>>
>>1cpu log: ftp://newageoc.com/pub/crafty/logs/1cpu.log
>>2cpu log: ftp://newageoc.com/pub/crafty/logs/2cpu-a.log
>>
>> pos  T         T2
>>  1   55     83/1.51
>>  2  189    100/1.89
>>  3  235    171/1.37
>>  4  253    157/1.61
>>  5  123     65/1.79
>>  6   70     39/1.68
>>  7  128     67/1.91
>>  8  211    123/1.72
>>  9   64     31/2.06
>> 10  146     95/1.54
>> 11  226    117/1.93
>> 12  248    135/1.84
>> 13   99     54/1.83
>> 14  293    179/1.64
>> 15  147     83/1.77
>> 16  227    120/1.89
>> 17   76     46/1.65
>> 18  224     98/2.28
>> 19  183     77/2.38
>> 20  214    109/1.96
>> 21   90     40/2.25
>> 22  209     98/2.13
>> 23  250    156/1.60
>> 24   72     31/2.32
>>average SU      1.856
>
>
>1 out of 4 positions had a superlinear speedup?
>
>anthony


It varies wildly in positions that are not "native" to the program it seems.  My
xeon times didn't do that much.  The opteron did.  Obviously this is _not_ a
hardware issue.  Which just shows how wildly the times can vary in a parallel
search.




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