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Subject: Re: Crafty WCCC hardware

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 17:45:41 06/21/04

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On June 21, 2004 at 16:08:13, Yen Art Tham wrote:

>On June 21, 2004 at 15:53:47, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>>Finally got access to the machine we will use for the WCCC.
>>
>>4 X 850 opteron (2.4ghz).
>>16 gigs of RAM.
>>
>>Here is the "bench" result:
>>
>>Total nodes: 104870200
>>Raw nodes per second: 8739183
>>Total elapsed time: 12
>>SMP time-to-ply measurement: 53.333333
>>
>>
>>I will post some results from time to time.  Looks like a reasonable box.  The
>>8-way 8048 I ran on a few months back hit around 15.5-16.0M nodes per second,
>>for reference...  Here is my dual xeon, for comparison:
>>
>>Total nodes: 88998098
>>Raw nodes per second: 2119002
>>Total elapsed time: 42
>>SMP time-to-ply measurement: 15.238095
>>
>>Single CPU opteron 850:
>>
>>Total nodes: 71553363
>>Raw nodes per second: 2385112
>>Total elapsed time: 30
>>SMP time-to-ply measurement: 21.333333
>>
>>
>>Single CPU blows my 2 X 2.8 xeon away.
>
>Are the Opteron results done with 64bit Crafty?

Yep.  But this is a plain Suse linux.  Got some work left to do to get the NUMA
stuff working correctly in the kernel, the library, then in Crafty again.  There
is a bit more performance to be had if I can get it all done...





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