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Subject: Re: AMD A64 X2 DUALCORE

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 18:01:00 08/03/05

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On August 03, 2005 at 15:18:11, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:

>On August 03, 2005 at 15:11:50, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>>On August 03, 2005 at 14:42:26, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:
>>
>>>On August 03, 2005 at 13:34:09, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>>>
>>>>On August 03, 2005 at 10:21:20, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>On August 03, 2005 at 10:13:45, Sedat wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>Hi there,
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Does anybody has any information about this processor ?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>-Can i run engine-matches with ponder on ?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>I mean:
>>>>>>-Does the kns of the engines will fall down ?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>And if its possible to run ponder on  matches :
>>>>>>-is it enough just one  processor or i need to buy two  processors ?
>>>>>
>>>>>A single dualcore processor behaves almost exactly like a 2 processor machine.
>>>>>
>>>>>--
>>>>>GCP
>>>>
>>>>This needs a _lot_ more testing before saying that so positively.  I've been
>>>>testing on a quad dual-core box,
>>>
>>>Whoa, the bloke was asking about a single dual core CPU, not about running on a
>>>monster.
>>>
>>>--
>>>GCP
>>
>>I get the same results running on one...
>
>Meaning, you don't scale X2?
>
>I cannot reproduce that, Crafty works and scales fine here.
>
>vanilla Linux 2.6.12 kernel, NUMA aware.
>
>--
>GCP


Correct.

We are not yet certain whether it is a MB/Bios issue, a hardware issue, a memory
issue, or what.  I even tried the version from the WCCC last year where I still
have the logs showing perfect X2, X3 and X4 scaling for 2, 3 and 4 processors
(NPS obviously not speedup).  But on the dual-core box I am playing with, things
are wildly off.

Next step is that AMD is going to drop in 4 single-core processors and I'm going
to see if the x2/x3/x4 scaling comes back.  If not, it isn't the processors, it
is something with this bios/chipset/MB combo...




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