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Subject: Re: WAIT A SECOND - just what is going on here?

Author: Andreas Guettinger

Date: 14:00:54 12/07/05

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On December 07, 2005 at 16:51:10, Aaron Gordon wrote:

>On December 07, 2005 at 16:39:16, Ed Murak wrote:
>
>>At http://www.talkchess.com/forums/1/message.html?467829 you collated these
>>results -
>>
>>...
>>124651 = AMD Opteron 275, 2.2ghz, 32 bit (WIN x64)
>>124651 = Athlon 64 3500+ 2.2GHz 32 bit
>>...
>>110801 = Pentium-M 2.0GHz 32 bit
>>110801 = Pentium 4, 3.6 ghz,560 Prescott, 32 bit (WIN/XP)
>>110801 = Athlon 64 3200+ 2GHz 32 bit
>>...
>>
>>Does it not seem a little strange that the precisely, exactly same "nps" is
>>reported for widely-differing CPUs (Athlon and Pentium 4 and Pentium M, say)?
>>
>>In just 17 results, 3+2=5 exact collisions with such big numbers involved is
>>beyond a coincidence.
>>
>>Is there some granularity in the test that we don't know about?  If not, is
>>"nps" reported always inversely proportional to "time" reported, for the same
>>initial conditions and 3988843 node count? If not, would "time" be a better
>>measure?
>>
>>I
>
>It is possible time IS a better measure, but we had to collect the results as-is
>to figure this out. :)
>
>It looks like it is just rounding to the nearest second. This would be ok for
>longer runs (maybe 200 seconds?), but my PC took just over 15 seconds. This is a
>bit of a difference I think, and would like to see more accurate results. Only
>problem would be having everyone now re-run it and calculate the NPS by hand
>from the time in ms and total node count.

Now that you mention it, I get a diffrent value when I calculate form hand:
info depth 14 time 32111 nodes 3988843 nps 128672
info time 32113 nodes 3988843 nps 128672

form hand:3988843/32.113 = 124212 nps ?

- andy

Athlon64 3400+ 2.4Ghz 512kb L2 cache



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