Average candidates/day?

[Thor]

I posted this question also over at the D2OL Forums, but not many people are passing by there, so here it is again:

Can somebody please post some numbers on the average candidates/day for a 3ghz Pentium/Xeon?

Eventually even with 2 clients/cpu running (with HT) ?

I just want to know if it is worth running 8 instances on a 4 cpu Xeon machine, or if 4 would be faster...

The eight nodes on that machine average between 54.6 and 58.6 candidates a day. And I know that a PIV 2.66ghz can do around 90-100/day

So does anybody have some numbers for me?


Greets Thor

[IronBits]

Approx. 100 points per day from AMD xp2600 type cpus is what I expect...

[em99010pepe]

A few benchmarks:

AMD 1100 Mhz----->~40 cands/day
AMD 64 3000+----->~130 cands/day or more

Carlos

[PCZ]

Thor

Your numbers look OK.
You have 4 3gig Xeons with HT on, thats eight virtual CPU's.
You are getting over 50 a day from each virtual CPU.
Thats over 400 points, or 100 points per CPU.

A single P4 3 gig on a fast motherboard will beat that with HT on and score around 130 points a day.
You will not match that on an SMP machine because the memory bus has to cope with the demands of the multi CPU's.

If you do the math assuming you get 58 rather than 50 then you are getting 116 per CPU which is good.
That is at least as good as a very fast Athlon XP.

[em99010pepe]

If I'm not mistaken a guy from AMD Users team with an intel 3.0 Ghz processor was making 120 cands/day. He was running 2 instances.

Carlos

[PCZ]

Also comparisons can be difficult because of variations in the WU's.
Some are faster than others.

[Thor]

Originally posted by PCZ
Thor
....
A single P4 3 gig on a fast motherboard will beat that with HT on and score around 130 points a day.
You will not match that on an SMP machine because the memory bus has to cope with the demands of the multi CPU's.

If you do the math assuming you get 58 rather than 50 then you are getting 116 per CPU which is good.
That is at least as good as a very fast Athlon XP.

Thats what I thought and why I was asking...

So I hope the company where that Xeon machine is at, stays busy, because right now they are to busy to put it into production :D

Buy the way, is there a way to start D2Ol without als the java stuff?


I have the feeling that my XP 2400 beats my brothers PIV 2.66Ghz ...
but I couldn't verify that as my computer didn't run D2OL straight for a few days yet...

It beats the Intel machine in every cpu test SiSoft Sandra has to offer exept the memory benchmark , because that PIV uses Rambus RAM...
Wich makes me wonder why, but it is not bad for the 20 Euros I paid for that cpu:D


Thor

[Chinasaur]

P4 1.6 ~60 per day - Win2K Dell box
P4 1.8 ~58 per day- XP Gateway box
XP2400 ~80 per day

[Digital Parasite]

Originally posted by Thor
Buy the way, is there a way to start D2Ol without als the java stuff?

Yup. Right click on the D2OL icon in the tray and choose "Properties". In the "General" tab, uncheck the "Launch main window on startup" option. Then "OK".

The next time you start D2OL, it will just launch the core in the background without loading the Java GUI.

Jeff.

[PCZ]

Another way of running it is to launch it from the command line with:
d2ol controller:cli

This will launch without the GUI.

I usually launch the GUI once to set up the client how I want it.
Then set up a service with instsrv / srvany.

[Thor]

Sorry for the bad spelling:eek:

My last post looks horrible :scared:

Things at university are going over my head right now....
To much work, not enough sleep and not the right attitude to pick up the pace ..


Thor

[willy1]

I have some dual Xeon 2.8Ghz boxes (2 physical CPUs with HT enabled) running 4 clients.

They seem to churn out between 55 and 59 cands/day.

[em99010pepe]

Originally posted by willy1
I have some dual Xeon 2.8Ghz boxes (2 physical CPUs with HT enabled) running 4 clients.

They seem to churn out between 55 and 59 cands/day.

Per client? If so that's the average. 120 cands/day per CPU.

Carlos

[willy1]

Originally posted by em99010pepe
Per client? If so that's the average. 120 cands/day per CPU.

Carlos

yes - those are per-node scores

[PCZ]

Willy1 seems to be getting slightly more per day out of the 2.8s than Thor is from the 3.0s, but this makes sense if you take into consideration Thor has 4 CPU's competing for the available memory bandwidth and Willy1 has 2.

Anybody got numbers for Athlon 64 ?

[tpdooley]

PCZ:

In 4.5 days of running, (it's yet to perform it's third update for today) I've got 663 points - so about 147 points/day on average. Very lightly used during that time period. 1 dvd movie watched.. spent an hour on SWG.. and a few hours browsing the internet.

Athlon 64 3000+, MSI K8t Neo mb, 2ea 512Meg Pc3200 2,3,2,2 timing, and Hitachi DeathStar 120Gig Sata drive, and running WinXP Pro sp2.

On the D2ol site, SilverBack had around 178 points/day with an Athlon FX53 after 3 days.

How do the Free-DC Athlon 64 users' machines compare?