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Subject: Re: New WAC results on a pretty "hot" box. :)

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 20:02:53 09/15/99

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On September 15, 1999 at 13:55:31, José de Jesús García Ruvalcaba wrote:

>On September 14, 1999 at 22:43:56, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>>
>>Here is an interesting WAC run for the currently released version 16.18,
>>run on a 21264 alpha (667mhz, nothing top-secret):
>>
>>       0  20  40  60  80 100 120 140 160 180 200 220 240 260 280
>>   +------------------------------------------------------------
>> 1 |   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   8   0   0   0   0   0   0   0
>> 2 |   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0
>> 3 |   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   1   0   0   2   0   0   3
>> 4 |   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   1   0
>> 5 |   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   4   0
>> 6 |   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0
>> 7 |   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0
>> 8 |   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0
>> 9 |   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   7   0   0   0
>>10 |   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0  39   0   0   0
>>11 |   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0
>>12 |   0   0   0   0   3   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   1   0   0
>>13 |   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   3
>>14 |   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0
>>15 |   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0
>>16 |   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   1   0   0   2   0   0
>>17 |   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   3
>>18 |   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0
>>19 |   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0
>>20 |   0   0   0   0  48   0   0   0   1   2   0   0   0   0   0
>>
>>The results are in order by column.  positions 1-20 are in column 1, 21-40
>>are in column 2, etc.  Max time limit was 60 seconds.  This is the first run
>>I have done where it got all 300 correct on a single-cpu machine.  If we drop
>>the time limit to 30 secs/position, it misses number 100 and 230, for a total
>>of 298.  If we drop the time to 10 secs, same result.  If we drop this to 5
>>secs, it drops to 297.
>>
>>Obviously this box like crafty and vice-versa.  :)
>>
>>Here is the summary from the end of the test:
>>
>>total positions searched..........         300
>>number right......................         300
>>number wrong......................           0
>>percentage right..................         100
>>percentage wrong..................           0
>>total nodes searched.............. 236973211.0
>>average search depth..............         4.5
>>nodes per second..................      783641
>>
>>
>>not bad, almost 800K on one cpu.  Can you guess how the 1ghz and beyond
>>versions will run?  And don't forget SMP as this is just one cpu.  Pretty
>>amazing boxes, those alphas...
>
>	Which operating system was used for this test? Is there a big performance
>difference between NT and True64 for crafty in the Alpha? Which compiler was
>used to build crafty?


Good questions.  As far as OS, it shouldn't matter at all for this kind of
compute-bound test.  The compiler is no doubt digital's... since the Microsoft
compiler for alpha is just a front-end for the digital compiler so far as I
know...



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