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Subject: Re: still looking for numa.h

Author: Vincent Diepeveen

Date: 10:52:51 02/19/05

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On February 19, 2005 at 13:51:16, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:

>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.

==> of course such things are only going to work if the machine is loaded with
DIMMS. Putting in just 1 or 2 dimms is not a very good idea. Just completely
fill it up. preferably 2-2-2 registered memory.

Vincent

>>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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