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Subject: Re: still looking for numa.h

Author: Eugene Nalimov

Date: 10:14:20 02/19/05

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On February 19, 2005 at 13:03:23, Mike Byrne wrote:

>hoping to compile Crafty numa aware ...

Under Windows default Crafty is NUMA-aware. It asks Windows, and if Windows says
"system is NUMA", Crafty binds threads to the specific CPUs and allocates memory
to optimize performance.

I suspect that your BIOS reports to Windows that system is SMP. I vaguely
remember that when I worked with Opterons I had to modify two BIOS settings
before it configured itself as NUMA -- one is called "Interleaved memory", and I
had to turn it off, and I cannot recall the second one.

Thanks,
Eugene

>so far here is the best crafty 19.19 bench mark I have obtained under 19.19 ...
>
>crafty64 19.19
>dual opteron 244
>oc 2.1 Ghz
>default hash
>
>Total nodes: 117483081
>Raw nodes per second: 4195824
>Total elapsed time: 28
>SMP time-to-ply measurement: 22.857143
>
>big hash saves ~14% in time, although 1.5% slower nps, it reduces the nodes
>search to reach the given depths by 17%, saving 4 seconds
>
>Crafty version 19.19
>hash table memory =       384M bytes.
>pawn hash table memory =   96M bytes.
>White(1): bench
>Running benchmark. . .
>......
>Total nodes: 99323178
>Raw nodes per second: 4138465
>Total elapsed time: 24
>SMP time-to-ply measurement: 26.666667
>White(1): info



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