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Former Member
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In BOINC if you do "advanced" -> Run CPU Benchmarks, i get this:
6/12/2006 10:43:25 PM||Benchmark results: 6/12/2006 10:43:25 PM|| Number of CPUs: 2 6/12/2006 10:43:25 PM|| 2102 floating point MIPS (Whetstone) per CPU 6/12/2006 10:43:25 PM|| 3870 integer MIPS (Dhrystone) per CPU 6/12/2006 10:43:25 PM||Finished CPU benchmarks Is that good? |
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Sekerob
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I'd get rid if that machine immediately
---------------------------------------- ....now, go and browse around on the forum....there's a long thread where many published their kits performance and a spreadsheet showing about 800 machines Show your Processor Score PS you throw many questions, which with a little effort answers can be found to....at the same time while reading, you learn a bit more which cause you to say "heh, i did not know that" 
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Yes, it is good.
Look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whetstone_(benchmark) and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dhrystone for explanations. Benchmarks are tricky things, but think of 2102 floating point MIPS (Whetstone) per CPU as being 2.1 GFLOPs per CPU. Real life problems bring that down, but a GFLOP is a good score. I just ran the Benchmarks for my AMD Sempron 3100+ (1.81 Ghz) and got 1708 floating point MIPS (Whetstone) and 3122 integer MIPS (Dhrystone). Lawrence |
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What does it mean?
MIPS means "million instructions per second". Integers are whole numbers, ie. numbers without decimals, eg. 36. An example of an integer instruction would be 36 + 92. The operands (36 and 92) are integers and the result (128) are all integers. A floating point number (often abbreviated to "float") has a decimal point, eg. 36.81. A float instruction is one where either the operands or the result has a decimal point. An example would be 2.8 X 3 or 3/2 (3 divided by 2). Division is always a float instruction. Float instructions are slower than integer instructions so they rate float speed separately from integer speed. Your CPU can perform 2,102 million float instructions per second, 3,870 million integer instructions per second. There are other benchmarks that give a more accurate/complete rating. Where do you rank? Well, my BOINC CPU benchmarks are: 2006-06-12 23:17:16 [---] Benchmark results: 2006-06-12 23:17:16 [---] Number of CPUs: 1 2006-06-12 23:17:16 [---] 2277 floating point MIPS (Whetstone) per CPU 2006-06-12 23:17:16 [---] 4151 integer MIPS (Dhrystone) per CPU 2006-06-12 23:17:16 [---] Finished CPU benchmarks I read in another thread you're running an Athlon 64 X2 3800+ Dual Core. That CPU runs at 2.0 GHz. I assume the benchmarks you reported are from that processor. I am running Athlon 64 3300+, single core, 2.4 GHz. I would have thought your benchmarks would be higher than mine because yours is dual core whereas mine is single. So it looks to me like BOINC is reporting the numbers for just 1 core or perhaps totalling the results from the 2 cores and dividing by 2. In that case, my benchmarks would be higher than yours because my processor runs faster. |
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What does it mean? MIPS means "million instructions per second". Integers are whole numbers, ie. numbers without decimals, eg. 36. An example of an integer instruction would be 36 + 92. The operands (36 and 92) are integers and the result (128) are all integers. A floating point number (often abbreviated to "float") has a decimal point, eg. 36.81. A float instruction is one where either the operands or the result has a decimal point. An example would be 2.8 X 3 or 3/2 (3 divided by 2). Division is always a float instruction. Float instructions are slower than integer instructions so they rate float speed separately from integer speed. Your CPU can perform 2,102 million float instructions per second, 3,870 million integer instructions per second. There are other benchmarks that give a more accurate/complete rating. Where do you rank? Well, my BOINC CPU benchmarks are: 2006-06-12 23:17:16 [---] Benchmark results: 2006-06-12 23:17:16 [---] Number of CPUs: 1 2006-06-12 23:17:16 [---] 2277 floating point MIPS (Whetstone) per CPU 2006-06-12 23:17:16 [---] 4151 integer MIPS (Dhrystone) per CPU 2006-06-12 23:17:16 [---] Finished CPU benchmarks I read in another thread you're running an Athlon 64 X2 3800+ Dual Core. That CPU runs at 2.0 GHz. I assume the benchmarks you reported are from that processor. I am running Athlon 64 3300+, single core, 2.4 GHz. I would have thought your benchmarks would be higher than mine because yours is dual core whereas mine is single. So it looks to me like BOINC is reporting the numbers for just 1 core or perhaps totalling the results from the 2 cores and dividing by 2. In that case, my benchmarks would be higher than yours because my processor runs faster. Showoff... My 3800+ runs at 2.2GHz... I tried running it at 2.5, but it kept locking up. Thats what I get for buying the cheap-o ram. Yeah the dual core thing is killing my score. But, I am ripping through WUs like like a crazed beast. Here is my work box (GOD HELP ME) 6/13/2006 8:44:53 AM|| Running CPU benchmarks 6/13/2006 8:45:52 AM|| Benchmark results: 6/13/2006 8:45:52 AM|| Number of CPUs: 1 6/13/2006 8:45:52 AM|| 857 floating point MIPS (Whetstone) per CPU 6/13/2006 8:45:52 AM|| 1485 integer MIPS (Dhrystone) per CPU 6/13/2006 8:45:52 AM|| Finished CPU benchmarks |
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Pentium III 1GHz
6/13/2006 8:45:52 AM|| Benchmark results: 6/13/2006 8:45:52 AM|| Number of CPUs: 1 6/13/2006 8:45:52 AM|| 857 floating point MIPS (Whetstone) per CPU 6/13/2006 8:45:52 AM|| 1485 integer MIPS (Dhrystone) per CPU 6/13/2006 8:45:52 AM|| Finished CPU benchmarks Pentium 4, 2.4GHz 800MHz FSB 6/12/2006 1:50:59 PM|| Benchmark results: 6/12/2006 1:50:59 PM|| Number of CPUs: 2 6/12/2006 1:50:59 PM|| 1242 floating point MIPS (Whetstone) per CPU 6/12/2006 1:50:59 PM|| 1169 integer MIPS (Dhrystone) per CPU 6/12/2006 1:50:59 PM|| Finished CPU benchmarks AMD Sempron 3100+ (1.81 Ghz) and got 6/12/2006 1:50:59 PM|| Benchmark results: 6/12/2006 1:50:59 PM|| Number of CPUs: 2 6/12/2006 1:50:59 PM|| 1708 floating point MIPS (Whetstone) per CPU 6/12/2006 1:50:59 PM|| 3122 integer MIPS (Dhrystone) per CPU 6/12/2006 1:50:59 PM|| Finished CPU benchmarks AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+ 6/12/2006 10:43:25 PM|| Benchmark results: 6/12/2006 10:43:25 PM|| Number of CPUs: 2 6/12/2006 10:43:25 PM|| 2102 floating point MIPS (Whetstone) per CPU 6/12/2006 10:43:25 PM|| 3870 integer MIPS (Dhrystone) per CPU 6/12/2006 10:43:25 PM|| Finished CPU benchmarks Athlon 64 3300+, single core, 2.4 GHz 2006-06-12 23:17:16 [---] Benchmark results: 2006-06-12 23:17:16 [---] Number of CPUs: 1 2006-06-12 23:17:16 [---] 2277 floating point MIPS (Whetstone) per CPU 2006-06-12 23:17:16 [---] 4151 integer MIPS (Dhrystone) per CPU 2006-06-12 23:17:16 [---] Finished CPU benchmarks Anybody else? Anybody have like an AMD 4000+? Or a processor made by those other guys? Show me your guns...  |
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retsof
Former Community Advisor USA Joined: Jul 31, 2005 Post Count: 6824 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Anybody else? Anybody have like an AMD 4000+? Show me your guns... Yep. Here's one. AMD64 4000+ overclocked slightly from 2.4GHz to 2.47GHz. ... must be that cheapo ram again. It didn't like to be faster, but I've got 3 GHz of memory on it. I still have an empty slot. This is an Asus A8N-E with 4 memory slots, and I also have an extra chassis fan running. CPU 55 degrees C, Mobo 41 degrees C. 6/13/2006 11:04:19 AM||Benchmark results: 6/13/2006 11:04:19 AM|| Number of CPUs: 1 6/13/2006 11:04:19 AM|| 2333 floating point MIPS (Whetstone) per CPU 6/13/2006 11:04:19 AM|| 4410 integer MIPS (Dhrystone) per CPU Here's another interesting machine. It started out as a Dell Pentium III/1.7GHz. I took it to my friendly local Laboratory Computer store and had it transmogrified into an AMD64 3200+ . It has a new cabinet, an Asus A8V-MX Mobo and we reused the graphics card, modem, hard drive and a few other standard things to keep the cost down. It's a reasonable cost way to make a fast machine out of your Turtlintel. It's also a better overclocker. The 2.0GHz overclocks nicely to 2.4GHz, reflected in these benchmarks. The CPU also runs cooler than the other machine, 47 degrees C, Mobo 39 degrees C. Yes, it has one of the new Venice cores. That explains it. It currently has 512Mb with Win XP and an extra 5 buck chassis fan, but there's not much else on it except crunching. 6/13/2006 11:17:49 AM|| Number of CPUs: 1 6/13/2006 11:17:49 AM|| 2286 floating point MIPS (Whetstone) per CPU 6/13/2006 11:17:49 AM|| 4231 integer MIPS (Dhrystone) per CPU Those were both socket 939 computers. There's a downloadable program, CBID/Central Brain Identifier, which will read the code numbers on the AMD machines to tell you what you've got. It comes from Belarus at http://www.amdclub.ru (in Russian, but might have an English version somewhere) and can be downloaded from MajorGeeks. and...the last BOINCer is my wife's machine, a Compaq AMD64 3400+ 2.4GHz. The bios must be secret. I haven't found a way to look at it yet. 6/13/2006 11:59:24 AM|| Number of CPUs: 1 6/13/2006 11:59:24 AM|| 2280 floating point MIPS (Whetstone) per CPU 6/13/2006 11:59:24 AM|| 4180 integer MIPS (Dhrystone) per CPU The fourth machine is an Intel Pentium III/500MHz processing Rosettas. It sends one in every one to five days.
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Hey I was junst in my machine and I reAlized I have my P4 OC'ed to 2.88. So edit my previous post to say that I have a P4 2.88..
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Sekerob
Ace Cruncher Joined: Jul 24, 2005 Post Count: 20043 Status: Offline |
That's the first time i see a benchmark where the dhrystone is lower than the whetstone....have you got something else running in tandem? I've got one Shuttle SS51G, 4+ yrs, p4 2.53ghz Hyperthreaded, 1gb DDR2 NOT OC'd...that has time/again burned my ram:
----------------------------------------2006-06-08 23:01:04 [---] Benchmark results: 2006-06-08 23:01:04 [---] Number of CPUs: 1 2006-06-08 23:01:04 [---] 1248 floating point MIPS (Whetstone) per CPU 2006-06-08 23:01:04 [---] 3100 integer MIPS (Dhrystone) per CPU 2006-06-08 23:01:04 [---] Finished CPU benchmarks Temp always flat 60c CPU, 53c on MB and 43c on HD thanks to Speedfan control.
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retsof
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Hey I was junst in my machine and I reAlized I have my P4 OC'ed to 2.88. So edit my previous post to say that I have a P4 2.88.. If there's a little pen and paper icon at the upper left of your message when you are logged on, that means you can edit it yourself by clicking on it. It is also running @ 59 degrees.
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