Memory bandwidth problem ? - R900 32Gb
kfx
kadafax at gmail.com
Fri Apr 4 05:31:33 CDT 2008
Hello,
we bought a R900 (4 x7350 CPUs, 32Gb RAM) and we are doing some
benchmark on it (mainly hpl and the stream benchmark).
The results of the stream benchmark are strangely low:
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Function Rate (MB/s) Avg time Min time Max time
Copy: 2112.3676 0.0152 0.0151 0.0152
Scale: 2207.4921 0.0145 0.0145 0.0145
Add: 2383.5787 0.0202 0.0201 0.0202
Triad: 2410.9814 0.0199 0.0199 0.0199
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Solution Validates
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The OS is RHEL 5.1 fully updated.
BIOS settings:
Adjacent Cache Line Prefetch = Disabled
Hardware Prefetcher = Enabled
I took the source code of stream there:
http://www.cs.virginia.edu/stream/FTP/Code/stream.c
and compiled it with a simple gcc command.
Do you think this is a normal score for this computer ?
Thanks,
kfx.
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