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Subject: Re: still looking for numa.h

Author: Vincent Diepeveen

Date: 10:51:16 02/19/05

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On February 19, 2005 at 13:14:20, Eugene Nalimov wrote:

>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.

You must put it at 64 bits and not 128 bits indeed.

128 bits gives bigger bandwidth but is very poor for chess.

>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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