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Subject: Re: AMD Opteron 2 x 248

Author: Anthony Cozzie

Date: 12:39:18 05/16/04

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On May 16, 2004 at 13:56:23, Tom Likens wrote:

>On May 16, 2004 at 13:17:17, Anthony Cozzie wrote:
>
>>On May 16, 2004 at 11:10:01, Omid David Tabibi wrote:
>>
>>>On May 16, 2004 at 11:05:36, Anthony Cozzie wrote:
>>>
>>>>On May 16, 2004 at 10:14:07, K. Burcham wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>Has anyone here posted using dual 248s?
>>>>>wonder how 2 x 248 AMD compares to dual Xeon 3.2 with 1 meg cache running a 32
>>>>>bit commercial chess program?
>>>>>
>>>>>http://www.newegg.com/app/viewProductDesc.asp?description=19-103-433&depa=0
>>>>>
>>>>>http://www.monarchcomputer.com/Merchant2/merchant.mv?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=M&Product_Code=120140
>>>>>
>>>>>kburcham
>>>>
>>>>Like Mike, I have dual 246s.  Opteron is a great CPU, but the 64-bit software
>>>>isn't *quite* ready, at least on linux (imo).
>>>
>>>Running 32 bit chess engines on that system, how much speedup do you see in
>>>comparison to the fastest 32 bit dual system?
>>
>>I wouldn't know.  I only run 64 bit linux :)  It works pretty well, but there
>>are definitely a few bugs left.  I'd say in another 3 months my system will be
>>good enough for me (new nvidia drivers, a few more kernel versions).
>>
>>anthony
>>
>>>>
>>>>anthony
>
>Anthony,
>
>Are you running 64-bit SUSE or one of the Red Hat flavors?  I've got an FX-51
>that I initially loaded 32-bit SUSE on (this was before SUSE supported SATA
>drives right out of the box) and was pleasantly surprised at how fast the
>32-bit programs ran (chess engines included).  When I finally installed the
>64-bit version, I was unpleasantly surprised at how *slow* the 32-bit software
>ran (including and especially the various Linux engines I test against).
>
>I got the requiste 64-bit boost when I converted Djinn over to a true 64-bit
>program but was somewhat dismayed with the 32-bit slowdown of its sparring
>partners.  I *could* dual-boot into a 32-bit version of Linux for testing but
>frankly that offends my sensibilities and seems like a bit of a waste.
>
>regards,
>--tom

Hmm, I haven't tried.  I usually test against crafty, and I compiled a version
in 64-bit mode.  I would have thought that 32 bit apps would run quickly because
this is essentially _hardware_ emulation, but maybe not . . . .

anthony



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