Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Fri, 26 Jun 1998 07:06:54 -0500 (CDT) | | From | Robert HYATT <> | | Subject | Re: quad ppro Compaq proliant 5000 problems with 2.1.106-ac4 was: Re: Any SMP people out there with SCSI CD ROMs? |
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On Thu, 25 Jun 1998, Joel Jaeggli wrote:
> On Thu, 25 Jun 1998, Chris Pirih wrote: > > > >> > Robert HYATT wrote: > > >> > > I ran the matrix multiply benchmark... with 1, 2, 3 and 4 > > >> > > processors. > > >> > > The numbers I got were 52 seconds, 59 seconds, 66 seconds and 73 seconds > > At least you know matrix multiply is totaly blocked on main memory, > otherwise you might see 1/4 the performance with 4 processes. > > > Look everybody, it's very simple. 1 copy of the program takes 52 > > seconds. 2 copies of the same program running at the same time take > > 59 seconds each. 3 copies take 66 seconds, 4 take 73. Each process > > runs on its own CPU, but when several of them are running each takes > > a little longer because they contend for the slow main memory, even > > though each process has a CPU all to itself. > > This is one of the drawbacks with ppro's is that their chipsets,the 450gx > and 440fx have about half the memory bandwidth of the p2's lx chipset with > the bx chipset providing slightly higher throughput than that. Of course > 450gx is the only way to go for 4 processors on a pc (for the next couple > of days anyway) until the 450nx and the slot2 p2 make their entrance. see > the discussion about this in the beowulf list about 6 months ago.
This Orion chipset isn't half bad, using 4-way interleaving to keep up with the 4 processors. It scales pretty well when compared to some dual PII machines I have tested that *really* bog down when you run two of these things. I was surprised as this is a 66mhz bus also.
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