Need small test of Houdini on AMD Phenom II processor

[Robert Houdart]

I need some help from people with AMD Phenom II processors with 4 or 6 cores.
I'm trying to solve the lack of SMP performance of Houdini on this processor, see e.g. this thread.

Could you run a small speed test with two development versions of Houdini?
The test shouldn't take more than a couple of minutes:
1) Download the 2 test versions from this link (359 kB). The zip file contains Houdini_DEVEL-V1_x64_8_CPU.exe and Houdini_DEVEL-V2_x64_8_CPU.exe.
2) With both versions using 4 or 6 threads analyze a middle game position (or the start position) for at least 30 seconds.
3) Publish the node speed in this thread.

Thanks for your help,
Robert

[robbolito]

Hi Robert,
I hope that this would be helpful.

robbolito

[Angel]

was above on your 6 core or a quad slanky ?

[robbolito]

Engine Score Ho Ho S-B
1: Houdini_DEVEL-V1_x64_8_CPU 1.0/1 ····· 1-0-0 0.00
2: Houdini_DEVEL-V2_x64_8_CPU 0.0/1 0-1-0 ····· 0.00

1 of 2 games played
Name of the tournament: Arena tournament
Site/ Country: AMDX6-1090T, United States
Level: Blitz 10/0
Hardware: AMD Phenom(tm) II X6 1090T Processor6x 3895 MHz with 4,096 MB Memory
Operating system: Microsoft Windows XP 64 Bit Professional Service Pack 2 (Build 3790)

[Angel]

Danke Slankyman

[Robert Houdart]

robbolito, thanks for your help.

It's not easy to derive meaningful conclusions from your data: you used different positions for the two engines, and the analysis time was too short and too different (29 vs. 11 seconds).

Could you rerun the test by analyzing a single position (no need to play a game, just analyze a position) by the two engines for at least 30 seconds? If you want you can use the starting position.
Can you confirm that both engines use 6 threads during the test?

Cheers,
Robert

[robbolito]

Danke Slankyman

Oh,no.Tu,otra vez.Y ahora en este forum de Ajedrez.Que "mala" suerte.

[Angel]

Misha please ..your serbian does not translate well and as usual you are WRONG ..im not even spanish dahlin...no cigar again slanky

[robbolito]

Here I have sent both engines after 30 seconds of play.Even the images are not showing 30 seconds in the display the screen capture was performed exactly at 30 seconds.
Version V2 is faster than the version V1

[robbolito]

Misha please ..your serbian does not translate well and as usual you are WRONG ..im not even spanish dahlin...no cigar again slanky

Hi my Angel,
you don't speak Serbian or Spanish.This is terrible.Luckily for you I did not write in French.How many languages do you speak than ?
And don't you have anything else useful to do instead of making these funny comments.What are the people going to think when they see our correspondence.
They don't know that our affair did not just start here.Kind of shocking.
And if we continue this way we will be banned for sure.At least you are a pro in these matters.I have joined this forum to be serious but with you this is a riot.

robbolito