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Subject: Re: Lippy is [fastest Crafty clone] in ICC

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 11:12:55 10/02/99

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On October 02, 1999 at 13:30:21, Peter Kappler wrote:

>On October 02, 1999 at 10:00:25, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>>On October 02, 1999 at 08:00:36, Jeremiah Penery wrote:
>>
>>>On October 02, 1999 at 06:24:36, Vincent Lejeune wrote:
>>>
>>>>The fastest crafty clone in ICC
>>>>
>>>>finger lippy
>>>>:
>>>>Statistics for Lippy(C)         On for: 3:50     Idle:    0
>>>>Lippy is currently involved in a match against EA6PZ(C).
>>>>
>>>>          rating [need] win  loss  draw total   best
>>>>Wild        2152        396    45     4   445   2190 (26-May-1997)
>>>>Bullet      2706        753    22    15   790   2707 (27-Sep-1999)
>>>>Blitz       2933       1872   110    85  2067   2977 (26-Sep-1999)
>>>>Standard    2422         80     7     8    95   2422 (02-Oct-1999)
>>>>
>>>> 1: Crafty v16.19a (8 cpus)
>>>> 2: Currently running on a very fast Alpha prototype with 2 CPUs.  Two minor
>>>>  bugs in Crafty cause the erroneous "8 cpus" in line 1 above and the erroneous
>>>>  ~400% cpu in whispers.
>>>> 3:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>Lippy(C) whispers: ply=12; eval=+3.10; nps=1087K; time=24.27; cpu=398%; egtb=0
>>>>aics%
>>>>Lippy(C) whispers: 27. Bc5 Kc8 28. Rb6 Re8 29. Ba6+ Kd8 30. g4 Nh4 31. Bb7 Kc7
>>>>\   32. Bxa8 Rxa8 33. Rc1
>>>>
>>>>Suprinsingly, it's only at 2933 elo-points
>>>
>>>Perhaps it inherited its ratings from playing on a much slower machine.  It'll
>>>take time to build up a bit.
>>>
>>>Jeremiah
>>
>>
>>several things...  1. you are right... it started off at 2500-2600.  2.  Tim
>>is running an early 16.20 version (early pawn majority code) that was not all
>>that great, particularly against computers.  3.  I am not sure that lippy is
>>the 667 21264 all the time, Tim would have to answer that.  It is _very_
>>strong, hardware-wise...  faster with one cpu than my quad xeon...
>
>That last statement is tough for me to swallow.  A single processor Alpha faster
>than your quad Xeon?  Can you describe this Alpha?  I assume a big part of the
>speedup for Crafty is the 64-bit architecture?
>
>--Peter

Tim posted the crafty 'bench' results for this machine.  It is a 21264 processor
at 667 mhz (this is not the fastest clock they expect for this cpu).  The bench
figure was 850K nodes per second (one cpu).  The 750mhz machine (which can be
bought now or very soon) will do 1M nps at least.  And then you can factor in
multiple cpus.  :)

But yes, 64 bits is a _big_ help...



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