Are Bulldozers crunching here?

Akos Fekete
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Hi, RE: but didn't

Hi,

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but didn't the Athlon (since XP) always feature 2 independent FP execution untis? The 1st is for FADD and SSE and the 2nd one for FMUL and SSE. Together with the FStore, of course and the usual 3-wide decode and dispatch.


You are right. The FADD + FMUL + FSTORE is the conventional
solution. But the Bulldozer consists of 2 FMAC instead of it.
That offers some advantages and lots of disadvantages...

Probably, one of the advantages can be important in our case.
The double-FMAC can execute 2 FADD or 2 FMUL simultaneously.
( I didn't do any measurements on its performance effect. )

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RE: RE: but didn't the

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but didn't the Athlon (since XP) always feature 2 independent FP execution untis? The 1st is for FADD and SSE and the 2nd one for FMUL and SSE. Together with the FStore, of course and the usual 3-wide decode and dispatch.

You are right. The FADD + FMUL + FSTORE is the conventional
solution. But the Bulldozer consists of 2 FMAC instead of it.
That offers some advantages and lots of disadvantages...

Probably, one of the advantages can be important in our case.
The double-FMAC can execute 2 FADD or 2 FMUL simultaneously.
( I didn't do any measurements on its performance effect. )


Is a Bulldozer code optimisation worthwhile?

Or should development effort be better concentrated to better utilise GPUs?

Slight aside: How do the AMD "APU"s compare? Are the APU extras easily utilised?

Happy fast crunchin',
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RE: Or should development

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Or should development effort be better concentrated to better utilise GPUs?

Slight aside: How do the AMD "APU"s compare? Are the APU extras easily utilised?

The APU is a standard AMD(ATI) GPU welded onto the side of the CPU.

The S6GC application would need a major redesign to work on a GPU. GPUs only work well for applications that only need a tiny amount of memory per thread; or which have extremely sequential memory access patterns. S6GC uses a lot of memory and accesses it in a way that was sufficiently random that back when CUDA was new, shiney, and nVidia was using its engineers to help create flagship apps for promotional purposes they couldn't get it running any faster than on a CPU. Adding a bigger GPU just resulted in more of the chip stuck waiting for memory reads/writes to go through.

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RE: Is a Bulldozer code

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Is a Bulldozer code optimisation worthwhile?

I don't think so. This core versus module issue is not something the actual single threaded app "sees". That's a matter entirely for the OS task scheduler, and maybe hand tuned multi-threaded apps.

What the project may be able to do is to recompile with some kind of Bully optimization (if there is anything like that), or maybe a separate code path for some hot loop. But I doubt there would be much to gain. AVX support might help (and also the Intels), but I've asked about this some time ago and apparently the potentail gain in E@H doesn't look too tempting.

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RE: If so, could one post

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If so, could one post real performance facts here, please?

Hi, this is my profile FX-6100 and GTX 550 Ti. Most of the time I am running other tasks on my Desktop too.

http://einsteinathome.org/account/143295/computers

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RE: Hi, this is my profile

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Hi, this is my profile FX-6100 and GTX 550 Ti. Most of the time I am running other tasks on my Desktop too.

http://einsteinathome.org/account/143295/computers

Thank you!

Here's the details of your Bulldozer/GTX560TI [Win7_64] compared to my Phenom II x6/GT240 [Ubuntu 11.04_64] (http://einsteinathome.org/host/3805542 and an I7 2600K/GTX560 HT 8 tasks at a time [Ubuntu 11.10_64] (http://einsteinathome.org/host/4237123)

Phenom Bench Marks:

Measured floating point speed 2,480.14 million ops/sec
Measured integer speed 14,953.99 million ops/sec

Bulldozer Bench Marks:

Measured floating point speed 2,418.34 million ops/sec
Measured integer speed 9,494.01 million ops/sec

Intel I7 Bench Marks:

Measured floating point speed 3,261.51 million ops/sec
Measured integer speed 12,522.66 million ops/sec

Task times (most recent 5 tasks):

Binary Radio Pulsar Search (Arecibo) v1.00 (BRP3cuda32).
  
Phenom:
CPU Sec:    896.36,   893.43,   855.47,   865.10,   878.09
Run time: 6,750.72, 6,733.69, 6,764.34, 6,828.89, 6,864.85

Bulldozer:
CPU Sec: 1,060.73, 1,080.85, 1,071.34, 1,065.27, 1,064.07
Run time: 2,854.81, 2,896.77, 3,192.96, 2,849.72, 2,866.32

I7:
CPU Sec: 577.31, 577.10, 576.26, 573.68, 571.94
Run time: 3,179.28, 3,184.89, 3,177.90, 3,162.97, 3,161.87

Gravitational Wave S6 GC search v1.01 (SSE2):

Phenom:
CPU Sec: 20,100.59, 20,281.95, 20,169.62, 20,160.31, 20,118.88
Run time: 21,658.95, 21,554.15, 21,706.22, 21,504.95, 21,571.40

Bulldozer:
CPU Sec: 22,693.31, 22,834.50, 22,800.11, 22,874.71, 22,944.72
Run time: 24,903.33, 25,173.36, 25,157.99, 25,231.34, 25,608.83

I7:
CPU Sec: 18,002.43, 18,000.19, 18,125.64, 18,080.39, 18,058.62
Run time: 20,944.07, 20,967.78, 20,928.44, 20,673.16, 20,614.86

I'll leave the interpretation of these numbers as an exercise for the reader.

Joe

ps. I hate trying to get columns to line up in bb-code.

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RE: [pre]Phenom Bench

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[pre]Phenom Bench Marks:

Measured floating point speed 2,480.14 million ops/sec
Measured integer speed 14,953.99 million ops/sec

Bulldozer Bench Marks:

Measured floating point speed 2,418.34 million ops/sec
Measured integer speed 9,494.01 million ops/sec

Intel I7 Bench Marks:

Measured floating point speed 3,261.51 million ops/sec
Measured integer speed 12,522.66 million ops/sec
[/pre]

Task times (most recent 5 tasks):

[pre]Binary Radio Pulsar Search (Arecibo) v1.00 (BRP3cuda32).

Phenom:
CPU Sec: 896.36, 893.43, 855.47, 865.10, 878.09
Run time: 6,750.72, 6,733.69, 6,764.34, 6,828.89, 6,864.85

Bulldozer:
CPU Sec: 1,060.73, 1,080.85, 1,071.34, 1,065.27, 1,064.07
Run time: 2,854.81, 2,896.77, 3,192.96, 2,849.72, 2,866.32

I7:
CPU Sec: 577.31, 577.10, 576.26, 573.68, 571.94
Run time: 3,179.28, 3,184.89, 3,177.90, 3,162.97, 3,161.87

Gravitational Wave S6 GC search v1.01 (SSE2):

Phenom:
CPU Sec: 20,100.59, 20,281.95, 20,169.62, 20,160.31, 20,118.88
Run time: 21,658.95, 21,554.15, 21,706.22, 21,504.95, 21,571.40

Bulldozer:
CPU Sec: 22,693.31, 22,834.50, 22,800.11, 22,874.71, 22,944.72
Run time: 24,903.33, 25,173.36, 25,157.99, 25,231.34, 25,608.83

I7:
CPU Sec: 18,002.43, 18,000.19, 18,125.64, 18,080.39, 18,058.62
Run time: 20,944.07, 20,967.78, 20,928.44, 20,673.16, 20,614.86
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I'll leave the interpretation of these numbers as an exercise for the reader.

Joe

ps. I hate trying to get columns to line up in bb-code.


On some project sites, the [pre][/pre] tags actually work. ;-)

Gruß,
Gundolf

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RE: On some project sites,

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On some project sites, the [pre][/pre] tags actually work. ;-)

Gruß,
Gundolf


Thank you.

Too late to edit this one, I'll TRY to remember that incantation for the next one.

BTW do we have a list of BB tags that work on this site?

Joe

Gundolf Jahn
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RE: BTW do we have a list

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BTW do we have a list of BB tags that work on this site?


Most of them do work on most sites. It's just the [pre][/pre] tag that doesn't on some sites.

Gruß,
Gundolf

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RE: BTW do we have a list

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BTW do we have a list of BB tags that work on this site?

Joe

upper left of the post window under "message", if i recall right some one had to point it out to me as well :)

Use BBCode tags to format your text

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