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Subject: Re: More parallel search data (results from dual G5)

Author: Frank E. Oldham

Date: 21:09:16 05/16/04

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On May 16, 2004 at 11:28:40, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On May 16, 2004 at 10:31:10, Frank Phillips wrote:
>
>>A random selection of statistics:
>>
>>cpu=4748%  1.88M
>>cpu=4834%  1.93M
>>cpu=5094%  3.24M
>>brettermeier(C)(2466)[73] whispers: ply=12; eval=Mat08; nps=2.86M; time=18.56;
>>\   cpu=4530%; egtb=0
>>
>>Not sure how to interpret the 50 hundred %
>>
>>Frank
>
>Me either.  That would be good for a 64 CPU machine of course, max=6400% there.
>But on an 8-way box I assume something in the CPU time is wrong.  In fact, I
>seem to remember that Sun did something odd.  IE in normal threads the CPU time
>returned is the time per thread.  But on Solaris (IIRC) CPU is the sum for all
>threads.  But Crafty does the summing internally.  That would make the above
>numbers make sense.  Divide by 8 since the CPU time is off by a factor of 8, and
>the numbers look like 593%, 604%, 637% and so forth...

This is true for Mac OS X also (maybe for any BSD-derived Unix ?) -- crafty
reports 396% for my dual.
Frank



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