Xeon 3.6 not performing....any ideas
2 May 2007 13:39:48 UTC
Topic 192660
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It really seems to not be performing as strong as it should.
This system is on a intel se7520af2 motherboard, 1 gig of ram, 36 gig raptor drive.
It was built to be cruncher.
Motherboard has the latest chipset drivers and bios.
Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 3.60GHz
Number of CPUs 4
Microsoft Windows Server 2003
Measured floating point speed 1592.57 million ops/sec
Measured integer speed 1896.29 million ops/sec
The latest Einstein "pulsar" wu's are taking at least 30 hours.
As a comparision my amd 1800x2 is doing these in 26 hours.
My C2D at 2.66 does these in about 10hrs.
Also...on spinhenge....3.6 xeon is completing wu's in 1hr18min.
The AMD 1800x2 is at 53 minutes.
The C2D is at 38 minutes.
any ideas or suggestions are welcomed.
Xeon 3.6 not performing....any ideas
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This one?
4 CPU's, means 2 real cores with hyperthreading enabled (four WUs running in parallel)? If so, one WU takes longer on your XEON, but it is doing twice as much WUs as the mentioned AMD X2. (which has two cores, no HT, so max. two WUs are running in parallel).
HTH
Michael
Team Linux Users Everywhere
RE: any ideas or
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there are also different WUs available...
Some grant 160 credits others grant over 400 credits!
Udo
Yes, these are 3.6 HT xeons,
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Yes, these are 3.6 HT xeons, so the OS see's 4 cores.
Xeon 3.6mhz 800mhz FSB 2mb L2 cache
My point is that this systems production does not seem what it should be....or rather what it used to be.
I have not changed anything as far as the OS, or drivers.
I have checked all the usual items, background process's, virii, etc.
It doesnt get used for anything....its just a cruncher.
One other thing to keep in
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One other thing to keep in mind is we are essentially Beta testing the new app, backend components, raw data structure, and IIRC a 'two pass' strategy for narrowing the hunt for the most likely candidates of interest and speeding things up overall which will be used for the next full length run. So just about everything is in flux right at the moment including the rates, which appear to be highly dependant on CPU type and family. Also, if you look at the stderr file for the result your running you'll see they have pretty much full debugging options enabled, which will tend to slow the app down as well.
All of this including the bug's which are causing a variety of app crashes and other malfunctions will get worked out over the next few weeks, as well as optimizing the app to improve overall runtime performance.
Alinator
*nods head in
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*nods head in agreement*
...one would think tho....that a 3.6 xeon 'should' do better.
as a unfair comparison my xeon 5355 system does the 'pulsars' in aboot 15 hours
No doubt that it will
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No doubt that it will eventually. Part of it could be with essentially no optimiztions at this time you may be seeing the effect of the differences in the architectures between the different generations of the Intel processors, which are 'masked' when the apps running on it are highly optimized.
If that's the case, it's pretty clear why Intel abandoned NetBurst for Core. ;-)
Alinator
RE: *nods head in
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The advantages of 8MB of L2 cache, and 4 true cores.
You really can't expect old
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You really can't expect old "pentium4" architecture Xeons to outperform modern "Core" chips... Any Athlon64 at half the clock will smoke them.
If this is a new box you just got for big bucks then someone really got you :)
RE: RE: *nods head in
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...and a pipline that doesn't extend from here to the moon. ;-)
nawl. This system was put
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nawl.
This system was put together about 8 months ago.
The 3.6 xeon system is in a Chenbro 3u case with a 650watt server power supply.....new ones are $540...mine was $20.oo off craigslist.
The motherboard and procs and 1 gig of ram (4x256 ddr2-400 ecc)
I traded for building a small shed for a customer to park his Harley in....about $250.oo in lumber and 4 hours of my time to build it.
Then it was great reason for a BBQ so it was all the bratwurst and beer I could consume, it was a great party.
The C2Q x5355 clovertown system cost me $1500.oo for the procs, mobo and a gig of ram(FB-dimms).
It is in a Koolance case on liquid cooling, procs are usually around 95 degrees F.
The Koolance 601 case I have had for years....with many different systems in it....I got it when AMD 2500 barton core procs were the fastest cpu, it was $200.oo then.....how ever long ago that was.