Call for Benchmarks

[Bionic_Redneck]

Originally posted by isp
So I'm seeing these numbers but would like to ask a question...

If someone wanted to build a mini farm of folders for df, what would you guess would yield the most output...

3x 2.4c @ 3.2 w/ ht on
or
5x amd 2500 or 2600+ at stock

TIA

I wouldn't put alot of stock in some of the p4 benchmarks...Dont hold me to it but I believe they were posted before the protien update.

[isp]

Originally posted by Bionic_Redneck
I wouldn't put alot of stock in some of the p4 benchmarks...Dont hold me to it but I believe they were posted before the protien update.

Thanks, I decided to go with AMD.

[Welnic]

Originally posted by Bionic_Redneck
I wouldn't put alot of stock in some of the p4 benchmarks...Dont hold me to it but I believe they were posted before the protien update.

The benchmark does not have anything to do with the current protein. The protein has no affect on it, that is why it is a benchmark. If the client itself changes, which it does do, that can change the benchmark.

[Bionic_Redneck]

so let me get this straight benchmark doesn't change with a new protein but does with a new client and we get a new client ever time there is a new protein. Am I missing something here?

[Paratima]

If you check the date on the current foldtrajlite.exe, you will probably find it to be 2/10/2004. The client did not change this time, only the protein files.

[Welnic]

And most client changes are various bug fixes. The only thing that would change the benchmark would be a change in the algorithm.

[Lucus Maximus]

A64 3200+ @ 2280MHz, HTT 228Mhz/Mem @ 190Mhz:

Summary
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Usr time Sys time
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Maketrj 2.906 0.172
Foldtraj 27.453 5.578

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A64 3200+ Stock

Summary
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Usr time Sys time
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Maketrj 3.281 0.109
Foldtraj 29.891 5.391

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Using an ASUS K8V Deluxe, 512MB Corsair XMS3500 & WinXP Pro

Awaiting NF3 250 boards here in Australia and will get me WaterCooling going on that setup with some OCZ 3700EB Hoping for 2.4GHz - 2.6GHz

-Lucus

[deranged128[OCAU]]

Another benchie, just for the heck of it.

This one run on a superlocked XP2500+ Barton @ 2230Mhz, 11 x 202 w/ 1.85 Vcore. Ram is is DDR 400, generic with timings set at 2.5-3-3-6, running at 1:1 with vdimm at 2.8v on ASUS A7N8X-X Deluxe. OS is FreeBSD 5.1

Summary
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          Usr time  Sys time
          --------  --------
Maketrj      5.828     0.203
Foldtraj    34.781     7.672

[Paladin]

I did a bunch of benchies while anteater & the DF staff was on vacation...
FSB has a greater impact than overall clock speed, with a delta of 100Mhz or less. Gentoo Linux clients run faster than the Win2K. On P3 and P4 the ICC client runs faster than the GCC.

Following results are not "golden samples", just first run from clean boot.

P3@1250Mhz, 512MB SDRAM, Win2K
Maketrj 12.889 0.571
Foldtraj 113.253 32.867

same as above on Gentoo Linux 2.6.5 w/gcc
Maketrj 9.580 2.080
Foldtraj 91.940 36.030

same as above w/icc
Maketrj 7.110 1.950
Foldtraj 89.350 37.390


P4@1610Mhz, 128MB RDRAM, Win2K
Maketrj 8.172 0.734
Foldtraj 50.828 14.516

same as above on Gentoo Linux 2.6.5 w/gcc
Maketrj 11.480 0.830
Foldtraj 48.900 14.590

same as above w/icc
Maketrj 4.950 0.800
Foldtraj 48.270 15.340


XP2400+@2250Mhz, 512MB SC-DDR, Win2K
Maketrj 6.672 0.500
Foldtraj 39.859 7.984

[qbain]

P3-S 1266 / 512MB CL2 PC133 / Linux 2.6.6

GCC:
Maketrj 6.760 1.500
Foldtraj 65.840 18.090

ICC:
Maketrj 4.710 1.450
Foldtraj 62.470 18.570

Version currently used (seems to be newer than the ones on the download page):
Maketrj 4.580 1.500
Foldtraj 60.990 18.490

[Basman]

Would a processor like a Presscot WITH 1024 kb of L2 cache instead of only 512 give a big performance boost? comparing this to the athlons en Northwoods??

[Grumpy]

It does help, though I am unsure by how much, I imagine not a great deal. I would avoid Prescotts for Folding due to the heat issues, especially with this protein ..

[FEEDB0B0]

Stock G5 Mac Dual 1.8GHz/512M Ram

Single Instance:
Summary
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Usr time Sys time
-------- --------
Maketrj 4.910 1.610
Foldtraj 39.380 26.640


Seems to eat system time with this fancy user-interface GUI.
Running -bench simultaneously in 2 processes does pretty much the same
if that matters to anyone.

Cheers
Christopher Hogue

[La Muis]

G5 Mac Dual 2GHz/2.5G Ram
Mac OS 10.3.4

(only running ./foldtrajlite -bench)

Summary
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Usr time Sys time
-------- --------
Maketrj 4.170 1.270
Foldtraj 34.380 20.660



(running ./foldit and ./foldtrajlite bench simultaneously)

Summary
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Usr time Sys time
-------- --------
Maketrj 4.320 1.150
Foldtraj 35.300 18.810

[Hua Luo Han]

any benchmarks for the new Celeron 'D' procs ?

or

[-=N0N@ME420=-]

AMD 1600+ 1.4Ghz O/Ced to 1.56Ghz - Palomino Core

The system cannot find the path specified.
One moment, opening rotamer library...
Predicting secondary structure and generating trajectory distribution...
Folding protein...
Benchmark complete.

Summary
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Usr time Sys time
-------- --------
Maketrj 10.234 0.563
Foldtraj 63.766 10.703

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why do I get the first error and whats usr time and sys time?

[bwkaz]

The error may be because you didn't put a .\ in front of the foldtrajlite command (if you didn't) -- I believe that on Windows you have to do that for it to work right.

Sys time is time spent inside the OS kernel. For example, when a program calls an OS function to read data from a file into a buffer, the time that the OS spends actually doing the reading from disk (or from memory, if your OS is smart enough to cache previously accessed file data... ) and copying it into your buffer is sys time.

Usr time (an abbreviation for "user") is time spent running the program's code -- the various loops, conditionals, and recursive function calls (if any) that exist in all usermode code. On Windows, this probably includes code located in DLLs that didn't come with the system (depends on what the DLLs are for), and it's debatable whether it also includes DLLs like comdlg32 that perform systemwide functions like bringing up common dialog boxes. It definitely excludes time spent inside things like the video driver. It may or may not exclude the time spent by csrss.exe doing screen updates (that depends on what the OS counts as user time vs. system time).

[erk]

Any comparisons between an A64 socket 754 vs socket 939 at the same GHz, OS etc?

[tpdooley]

I'll have to track down the chart of Athlon 64 model numbers versus Ghz - but the Athlon64 3000+ 754pin cpu is say a 2Ghz part. The same Ghz speed 939pin cpu is a Athlon64 3200+.
So it might be nice to see an Athlon64 3000+ 754pin cpu compared to the 939 pin Athlon64 3000+ and the 939 part running at the same Ghz as the Athlon 754 pin cpu tested.

[tpdooley]

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/08...sonal_cluster/

anyone have one of the 12 cpu Orion clusters to benchmark?

[ton80]

AMD A64 3200+ Socket 754 2205 MHz WinXP Pro SP2 3.328 0.234 32.547 6.875