On Tue, 2010-07-20 at 18:25 +0200, Paul Zimmermann wrote:
> > I'm pleased to announce that AMD (1) donated two 12-cores Magny-Cours
> > processors running at 1.5 GHz...
> 
> /proc/cpuinfo says only 800Mhz, as says GMP's speed:
> 
> zimme...@gcc10:~/gmp-5.0.1/tune$ ./speed -s 1000000 mpn_mul
> overhead 0.000000008 secs, precision 10000 units of 1.25e-09 secs, CPU freq 
> 800.00 MHz
>               mpn_mul
> 1000000    1.432090000
> 
> Also the web page says "2x12x1.9 GHz". Which one is correct?

I fixed the wiki, the correct frequency is 1.5 GHz as described in the
announce email.

The processors are "AMD Engineering Sample" with min frequency at 800
MHz and max frequency at 1.5 GHz with many intermediate frequencies:

gcc10:~# cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_available_frequencies 
1500000 1200000 1000000 900000 800000 

This processor model is not available for sale.

Sincerely,

Laurent

PS: a small experiment:

gcc10:~# grep MHz /proc/cpuinfo 
cpu MHz         : 800.000
cpu MHz         : 800.000
cpu MHz         : 800.000
cpu MHz         : 800.000
cpu MHz         : 800.000
cpu MHz         : 800.000
cpu MHz         : 800.000
cpu MHz         : 800.000
cpu MHz         : 800.000
cpu MHz         : 800.000
cpu MHz         : 800.000
cpu MHz         : 800.000
cpu MHz         : 800.000
cpu MHz         : 800.000
cpu MHz         : 800.000
cpu MHz         : 800.000
cpu MHz         : 800.000
cpu MHz         : 800.000
cpu MHz         : 800.000
cpu MHz         : 800.000
cpu MHz         : 800.000
cpu MHz         : 800.000
cpu MHz         : 800.000
cpu MHz         : 800.000
gcc10:~# md5sum /dev/zero &
[1] 27631
gcc10:~# grep MHz /proc/cpuinfo 
cpu MHz         : 800.000
cpu MHz         : 800.000
cpu MHz         : 800.000
cpu MHz         : 800.000
cpu MHz         : 800.000
cpu MHz         : 800.000
cpu MHz         : 800.000
cpu MHz         : 1500.000 <======== md5sum running here
cpu MHz         : 800.000
cpu MHz         : 800.000
cpu MHz         : 800.000
cpu MHz         : 800.000
cpu MHz         : 800.000
cpu MHz         : 800.000
cpu MHz         : 800.000
cpu MHz         : 800.000
cpu MHz         : 800.000
cpu MHz         : 800.000
cpu MHz         : 800.000
cpu MHz         : 900.000 <========= some other process
cpu MHz         : 800.000
cpu MHz         : 800.000
cpu MHz         : 800.000
cpu MHz         : 800.000
gcc10:~# kill %1
gcc10:~# 
[1]+  Terminated              md5sum /dev/zero




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