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Subject: Re: Opinions? A Crafty experiment...

Author: Slater Wold

Date: 22:03:33 05/24/04

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On May 24, 2004 at 15:08:13, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On May 24, 2004 at 14:12:10, Slater Wold wrote:
>
>>On May 24, 2004 at 14:09:56, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>>
>>>On May 24, 2004 at 12:56:56, Slater Wold wrote:
>>>
>>>>On May 24, 2004 at 12:29:04, Russell Reagan wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>On May 24, 2004 at 12:06:46, Slater Wold wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>In a thread below, there is a post about Blargh, ICCs top computer.  It has won
>>>>>>60% of its games at standard time controls, and only lost 16% in almost 3,000
>>>>>>games!
>>>>>>
>>>>>>I am interested to know the OoO (opinion of outcome) of EVERYONE at the
>>>>>>following experiment, I will be in contact with the operator of Blargh, and will
>>>>>>try to set this up.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Crafty 19.13 on an AMD FX53 (64-bit) vs Shredder 8 on a Dual Opteron 2.2Ghz
>>>>>>(32-bit)
>>>>>>
>>>>>>10 game match.  120/0.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Opinions?
>>>>>
>>>>>Crafty on equal hardware probably doesn't stand a realistic chance against
>>>>>Shredder. Only Fritz scores at least 45% against Shredder on the latest SSDF.
>>>>>Junior and Hiarcs score at least 40%. Crafty would be behind those engines on
>>>>>equal hardware by a non-trivial margin (take the Junior-Crafty 10x experiment
>>>>>for example).
>>>>
>>>>OoO please...
>>>>
>>>>>What is interesting about a Shredder-Crafty match where Crafty is at a hardware
>>>>>_disadvantage_?
>>>>>
>>>>>BTW, that really explains a lot about why he is #1 on ICC. You have a freakin'
>>>>>FX53 and you're at a hardware disadvantage! Wow...
>>>>
>>>>It's a disadvantage, but a small one.  How small?
>>>
>>>It is at least 2x disadvantage.
>>>
>>>You did notice that box is a _dual_???
>>
>>Dual.  And 32-bit.
>>
>>>Shredder has an SMP version which I would assume he is using...
>>>
>>>>Crafty on a 2.2Ghz Opteron in 32-bit gets about 1.5M NPS.  With a 1.89 speedup,
>>>>we get 2.8M nps.  My FX53 (64-bit) will do 2.6M.  It's at a 8% HW disadvantage.
>>>>
>>>>8% means nothing in a 120/0 game.
>>>
>>>Where are those numbers coming from?
>>>
>>>
>>>Crafty on a 2.2ghz opteron gets >2M on linux with GCC.  With windows it is
>>>closer to 2.3M on a single opteron CPU...
>>
>>My 2.4Ghz FX doesn't get 2.3M 32-bit.  Where are you getting these numbers?
>
>Running in the last CCT the bench command was doing 2M.  I posted the numbers
>here at some point.  My log files for the DTS positions (on my ftp machine in
>the smpdata directory) shows that the first DTS position starts at 1.9M nodes
>per second.  Here are the actual one-cpu runs:

THAT IS 64-BIT.  SHREDDER IS NOT 64-BIT.  YOU CANNOT CLAIM 64-BIT SPEED WHILE
USING A 32-BIT PROGRAM.

Crafty on my machine WILL be 64-bit.  Shredder is NOT 64-bit.

Alas, the machines are for the MOST part, equal.



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