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Subject: Re: Crafty 16.18 benchmarks on UltraSparc and Athlon

Author: walter irvin

Date: 07:53:36 09/17/99

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On September 17, 1999 at 09:27:59, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On September 17, 1999 at 02:32:26, Hristo wrote:
>
>>On September 16, 1999 at 23:03:56, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>>
>>>On September 16, 1999 at 10:42:02, walter irvin wrote:
>>>
>>>>On September 16, 1999 at 06:35:03, Owen Lyne wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>Benchmarks for Crafty 16.18
>>>>>---------------------------
>>>>>
>>>>>167 MHz UltraSparc (Solaris 2.6, compiled with gcc 2.8.1)
>>>>>
>>>>>Total nodes: 61096154
>>>>>Raw nodes per second: 69035
>>>>>Total elapsed time: 885
>>>>>SMP time-to-ply measurement: 0.723164
>>>>>
>>>>>250 MHz UltraSparc (Solaris 2.7, compiled with gcc 2.8.1)
>>>>>
>>>>>Total nodes: 61096154
>>>>>Raw nodes per second: 95612
>>>>>Total elapsed time: 639
>>>>>SMP time-to-ply measurement: 1.001565
>>>>>
>>>>>600 MHz Athlon (wcrafty-16.18.exe from Bob's ftp site)
>>>>>
>>>>>Total nodes: 68509284
>>>>>Raw nodes per second: 422896
>>>>>Total elapsed time: 162
>>>>>SMP time-to-ply measurement: 3.950617
>>>>>
>>>>>Notes:
>>>>>I'm very pleased with my new AMD Athlon 600MHz - that looks like
>>>>>a pretty good benchmark for Crafty to me. Totally vanilla settings, just
>>>>>downloaded the exe file and double-clicked on it, worked like a dream. Next stop
>>>>>Winboard!
>>>>>
>>>>>I've also included bechmarks from the machines at work, this is a compile of my
>>>>>own (I hope we'll get gcc2.95 soon and speed things up), as Bob says, these
>>>>>machines don't see to perform well MHz for MHz and I know they were expensive.
>>>>>
>>>>>Judging by these numbers it would need a 1000MHz UltraSparc to perform as well
>>>>>as my 600MHz Athlon.
>>>>>
>>>>>Owen
>>>>cool i was thinking of getting me one but was not sure what speeds i could
>>>>expect ? now i think i'll go ahead and get one ,looks fast enough for me .
>>>
>>>
>>>If you want raw speed, get a 21264 alpha.  Nothing else even comes _close_...
>>
>>What numbers (nodes per sec) are we talking about on the 21264?
>>
>>hristo
>
>
>Something in the 850K range for a 667mhz box, although faster ones are
>available...  (750 at least, probably 1ghz very soon. 1M nps+ will be
>very realistic for that box...
i know very very little about the alpha ,i want the absolute fastest machine
possible ,but i have to be able to put a chess program on it .is a alpha ibm
compatible , could i put a crafty on it .could i program on it?? i have only
programed on ibm thats all .



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