S40 Observation Thread

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RE: AGI (address generation

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AGI (address generation interlock) isn't depend on the type of motherboard.
It comes from unlucky instruction order and register usage.

Ok, thanks. The only AGI I knew of was Asrock's variant of Acc. Graphics Port. I'd read some posts about using graphic cards for processing.

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RE: Hello! S40 did some

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Hello! S40 did some "access violation" error on one of my PC.
So, don't use this version! I will check the code and the PC.

I did a fast code checking. It seems to be good. :-(

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RE: RE: Have somebody got

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Have somebody got access violation error with S40?/quote]

No problem here with 24 WU's completed and only a couple of those pending. Still running about 20 minutes faster than S39L. These WU's are in numerical order so they are all about the same length.

A have not problem also. On my Xeon S40 has uniform speed as S39L
S40: avg. 6030,71 sec (avg. from 11 WUs)
S39L: avg. 6034,55 sec (avg. from 19 WUs)

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I didn't get any errors with

I didn't get any errors with it but it was around 100 seconds slower than S39L on my Prescott (HT enabled).

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RE: I didn't get any errors

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I didn't get any errors with it but it was around 100 seconds slower than S39L on my Prescott (HT enabled).

Thanks.
S40 is also slower on my P4-M Northwood (~1%).

The prefetch logic / cache mechanism of AMD processors is much better than intel.
Probably, intel forgot something. (AMD -> write combining)

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2WUs done on 2 different

2WUs done on 2 different processors (Thoroughbred, Winchester), 1 verified - no problems so far.

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Has anyone who is running the

Has anyone who is running the D40 application tried the S40? And if so how do they compare?

Thanks

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RE: Has anyone who is

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Has anyone who is running the D40 application tried the S40? And if so how do they compare?

Thanks


Differences are still in error range.

And some "bug" - after uploading calculated WU no new WU calculation was started by S-40 until I noticed it few hours later and pressed "Update project" button. No errors in messages were shown. There is no such bug on secondary PC.

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So, probably I found the

So, probably I found the reason of "access violation" fault. There were two chances. Software or hardware fault.

S40 is running on my five computers and I got 6 faults from 200 wus.
I got the faults one the same computer, so it gives much bigger probability to hw fault.

But, I got the same fault. So I examined the code and the CPU more watchfully.
I found that the AGU part of the CPU cannot tolerate the higher frequencies.

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Toroughbred 2400+ D-40 5010

Toroughbred 2400+
D-40 5010 (10 WU av)
S-40 4843 (2 WU av) (all 2 WU faster than all 10 of D-40)
It seems S-40 faster :)

Winchester on 213 HT
S-39L 4034 (12 WU av, very small WU time difference)
S-40 3854 (5 WU av)
S-40 faster here too. And no faults on slightly overclocked Athlon64 still.

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