Author: Andreas Guettinger
Date: 13:20:57 01/16/06
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On January 16, 2006 at 16:05:18, George Sobala wrote: >On January 16, 2006 at 16:04:22, Andreas Guettinger wrote: > >>On January 16, 2006 at 15:59:53, George Sobala wrote: >> >>>On January 16, 2006 at 15:51:37, Andreas Guettinger wrote: >>> >>>>On January 16, 2006 at 15:30:15, Ingo Bauer wrote: >>>> >>>>>On January 16, 2006 at 15:24:39, Andreas Guettinger wrote: >>>>> >>>>>>On January 16, 2006 at 14:27:57, Albert Silver wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>>On January 16, 2006 at 14:02:04, George Sobala wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>>>On ICC right now: >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>Rybka 1.01 Beta 10d 32-bit on a (mere) Pentium M 1.6GHz (Fishlet) >>>>>>>>v >>>>>>>>Deep Shredder on an Apple Quad 4x2.5GHz (Redshift) >>>>>>> >>>>>>>Could you give an idea as to what this might be equivalent to for a WinBox? In >>>>>>>other words, would this be as fast as Deep Shredder running on an Athlon 4800+X2 >>>>>>>and the like? Faster? Slower? >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Albert >>>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>>By calculation it would be equal to 7.5 Ghz of a Athlon64 or Opteron box (for >>>>>>Chess), because the 2.5 Ghz PowerPC G5 is 0.75 times as fast as a Athlon64 3400 >>>>>>2.4 Ghz. >>>>>>I don't know what the Ghz of a Athlon 4800. It would be similar as 1 x 7.5 Ghz, >>>>>>2x 3.75 or quad 1.9 Ghz for multithreading. >>>>> >>>>>I operated Shredder at the IPCCC in Paderborn on a Quad Mac with 2.5 GHz. We >>>>>calculated that it is as fast as an Quad Opteron at 2.5 GHz (+/- 10%). A single >>>>>G5 is slower than a single Opteron (for chess!) but the speedup for 4 CPUs seems >>>>>to be better. The overall result is about equal. >>>>> >>>>>Btw: Seeing it that way a quad Mac is one of the cheapest available systems with >>>>>that much "chess calculating power"! >>>>> >>>>>Bye >>>>>Ingo >>>> >>>>Interesting. I only compared the NPS of single process engines and didn't take >>>>in account the speedup. >>>>Actually I would have thought the difference would be even bigger if a Intel >>>>compiler and optimizations would be used for the Athlon/Opteron. >>>>Maybe the 2 Gb of L2 Cache per CPU (4 Gb total) that is shared for 2 cores each >>>>makes a difference. >>>> >>>>If somebody has a Athlon 4800 X2 with Deep Shredder and a testposition we could >>>>make a comparision. >>>> >>>>regards >>>>Andy >>> >>>The Apple Quad is certainly outstanding bang per buck. >>> >>>Deep Shredder x 4 runs at about 1.5 million nodes per second in midgame, >>>accelerating up to about 2 million nps as the position simplifies. >>> >>>How does Shredder do on fast Opterons? >> >> >>>I will turn on move kibitzing for Deep Shredder, and you can compare your >>>Shredder nps as you watch. >> >>Comparing your to my Apple Quad would be boring. ;) >> >>- Andy > >"Your" was plural! Learn some grammar! :) Sorry, but could you say this again in german? :) regards - Andy
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