Given that sage.math has a bench score of 1088, this machine is nearly
50% faster for mp math.

Good choice!!

On 20 May 2010 03:46, Bill Hart <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 20 May 2010 03:37, Jason Moxham <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On Thursday 20 May 2010 03:11:24 Bill Hart wrote:
>>> On 20 May 2010 02:58, Jason Moxham <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> > On Thursday 20 May 2010 02:11:11 Bill Hart wrote:
>>> >> There's a new Opteron on the block. family 16 model 8. It's an Opteron
>>> >>  8439 SE. We don't have it in cpuid.c yet.
>>> >
>>> > Looks like another K102  , doesn't look like any differences for us ,
>>> > although we dont know until we test it.
>>>
>>> Passes make check once the cpuid is put in. See below for bench. This
>>> particular machine is 2.8GHz(owner is in cc). I didn't make tune, but
>>> that shouldn't be needed.
>>>
>>> Index: cpuid.c
>>> ===================================================================
>>> --- cpuid.c     (revision 2928)
>>> +++ cpuid.c     (working copy)
>>> @@ -120,7 +120,8 @@
>>>         case 16:
>>>           if (model == 2) { CPUIS(k10);break;}
>>>           if (model == 4) { CPUIS(k102);break;}
>>> -         break;
>>> +      if (model == 8) { CPUIS(k102);break;}
>>> +      break;
>>>          }
>>>      }
>>>    else if (strcmp (vendor_string, "CentaurHauls") == 0)
>>>
>>> > By the way the difference between what we call the K102 and the K10 , is
>>> > the "same" as the difference between early K8 and late K8's , a slight
>>> > difference in L1-data cache and store forwarding , which does effect some
>>> > functions eg copy,addadd,lshiftcom , some more than others
>>> >
>>> >> Also we currently have a symbol in the library, mpn_sqr_n and a
>>> >> #define in mpir.h to rename it mpn_sqr in line with gmp. But that
>>> >> isn't sufficient. It breaks gcc on machines where gcc has been built
>>> >> with dynamic libs. On the face of it this shouldn't affect anyone, but
>>> >> in fact it will affect lots of people. The only solution I see is to
>>> >> rename the library symbol.
>>> >
>>> > we can just export both names , so we are compatible with the new gmp AND
>>> > the old
>>>
>>> Yeah, I noticed that.
>>>
>>> Anyhow, good idea, but not in mpir.h. It has to be in the library itself.
>>>
>> I ment in the library , trying to think how you do it :) , I know how to do 
>> it
>> in asm , but in C ?
>
> I don't know either, I mean without duplicating the code or incurring
> extra overheads. The compiler is going to inline anything efficient
> anyway!
>
>>
>>> >> Also, GMP defines mpn_copyi and mpn_copyd. On generic x86_64 machines,
>>> >> we don't seem to have any assembly for this. There's no fallback
>>> >> generic C symbol in the lib.
>>> >
>>> > we can the fallback C code that a fat build uses , with the new K102
>>> > cpuid above there is no current generic x86_64 cpu :)
>>>
>>> True.
>>>
>>> >> Bill.
>>>
>>> AuthenticAMD Family 16 Model 8 Stepping 0
>>> Six-Core AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 8439 SE
>>> Speed: 0.80 GHz (reported)
>>
>> powersave on ? , below useless
>
> Probably affects only the first timing. I think it is probably on demand.
>
>>
>>>  Category base
>>>   Program multiply (weight 1.00)
>>>          128       128 => 62415242
>>>          512       512 => 14910433
>>>         8192      8192 =>   174206
>>>       131072    131072 =>     3012
>>>      2097152   2097152 =>      108
>>>          128       128 => 57065363
>>>          512       512 => 13512577
>>>         8192      8192 =>   120162
>>>       131072    131072 =>     2251
>>>      2097152   2097152 =>     74.3
>>>        15000     10000 =>    59494
>>>        20000     10000 =>    46812
>>>        30000     10000 =>    27429
>>>     16777216       512 =>      458
>>>     16777216    262144 =>     13.7 => 37401,46751
>>>   Program divide (weight 1.00)
>>>         8192        32 =>  1654949
>>>         8192        64 =>  1526756
>>>         8192       128 =>   926962
>>>         8192      4096 =>   297892
>>>       131072     65536 =>     3232
>>>      8388608   4194304 =>     11.5
>>>         8192      8064 =>  8473345
>>>     16777216    262144 =>     4.76 => 31816,39770
>>>   Program divexact (weight 1.00)
>>>         8192        32 =>  1872460
>>>         8192        64 =>  1853921
>>>         8192       128 =>   786511
>>>         8192      4096 =>   360487
>>>       131072     65536 =>     3813
>>>      8388608   4194304 =>     11.8
>>>         8192      8064 => 14242122
>>>     16777216    262144 =>     7.84 => 38603,48254
>>>   Program gcd (weight 0.50)
>>>          128       128 =>  2284479
>>>          512       512 =>   227241
>>>         8192      8192 =>     5964
>>>       131072    131072 =>      111
>>>      1048576   1048576 =>     6.36 =>  4656, 5819
>>>   Program gcdext (weight 0.50)
>>>          128       128 =>   988477
>>>          512       512 =>   175371
>>>         8192      8192 =>     4609
>>>       131072    131072 =>     68.3
>>>      1048576   1048576 =>     4.31 =>  2981, 3726
>>>   Program root (weight 0.30)
>>>          128         5 =>  1142240
>>>          512         3 =>   514009
>>>         8192        11 =>   158261
>>>       131072         3 =>     4138
>>>      1048576         3 =>      190 => 37396,46745
>>>   Program fac_ui (weight 0.20)
>>>          128       128 =>  1588752
>>>         1512      1512 =>    53386
>>>        15000     15000 =>     1249
>>>      1000010   1000010 =>     4.39
>>>      2123456   2123456 =>     1.63 =>   945, 1182 => 18481,23101
>>>  Category app
>>>   Program rsa (weight 1.00)
>>>                    512 =>    24338
>>>                   1024 =>     5200
>>>                   2048 =>      883 =>  4817, 6021
>>>   Program pi (weight 1.00)
>>>                  10000 =>      458
>>>                 100000 =>     27.0
>>>                1000000 =>     1.61 =>  27.1, 33.9
>>>   Program bpsw (weight 1.00)
>>>                   1024 =>     1138
>>>                   4096 =>     32.4
>>>                  16384 =>    0.840 =>  31.4, 39.2
>>>   Program wagstaff (weight 1.00)
>>>                   1024 =>     2626
>>>                   4096 =>      105
>>>                  16384 =>     3.36 =>  97.5,  122 =>   141,  177 =>  1617,
>>> 2021
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