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Conference hydra::axp-developer

Title:Alpha Developer Support
Notice:[email protected], 800-332-4786
Moderator:HYDRA::SYSTEM
Created:Mon Jun 06 1994
Last Modified:Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:3722
Total number of notes:11359

3551.0. "Onlife Technology" by HYDRA::AXPDEVELOPER (Alpha Developer support) Fri Apr 25 1997 17:22

    Company Name :  Onlife Technology
    Contact Name :  Neil Day
    Phone        :  408-566-6000  x4.05
    Fax          :  
    Email        :  
    Date/Time in :  25-APR-1997 16:20:24
    Entered by   :  Miller Chin
    SPE center   :  MRO

    Category     :  NT
    OS Version   :  4.0 (1381, SP1)
    System H/W   :  Alpha Server 4100


    Brief Description of Problem:
    -----------------------------

    Saw performance degradation when running his own benchmark
    on Alpha 4100 server SMP on 2CPU vs. 1 CPU.


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3551.1HYDRA::CHINFri Apr 25 1997 17:3136
  RE: -1

   I checked with Neil on all possible problems, but could come up
   with anything obvious.  Neil will put together some benchmark
   for me to try here.

   Config:
   Alpha Server 4100 2CPU (466Mhz)
   AlphaBIOS 5.28, 970126.1242
   4GB RAM
   4MB Cache,
   processor 0 and 1 ready
   Firmware ??
   
   Application was written in C++ and compiled with VC4.2b/Alpha.
      and pick up a patch ac242bta.exe for /Oa fix

   Benchmark - written by Neil
    For testing number of NamePipe connections/sec
    - Open and close name pipe within the For loop
    - Use Win32 code
    - Use Win32 Multimedia timer for measuring
    - use c rtl malloc for memory alloc
    - in memory test, no disk activities
    - multithreaded (ie. 3 threads)
    - no network, standalone system

    result:  1cpu  - 2500 conn/sec
             2cpu  - 1700 

   Neil claimed that his application is very 'well' decomposed for
   SMP system, but he didn't have any Intel numbers yet.


   Miller
3551.2HYDRA::CHINFri May 09 1997 19:3711
  re: -1 


  The problem is taken offline and I will be responsible to communicate
  with this customer and the sales team on the status.  So far I conducted
  some benchmark testing, and sent two reports to all stakeholders.

  IPMT has been filed by the sales/msc team to track this.  CAPE # WEAB51094.

  Note closed.