Forex Software — FSB and Processor Speed

Re: FSB and Processor Speed

null@example.com (ahmedalhoseny) — Sat, 23 Feb 2013 06:41:11 +0000

Regarding to increasing speed of calculations all here speak about processors and multithreading which is the most important factor as i think , but i viewed some links speak also about
1- the language used in building indicators

2- the way indicator get written'' some times two indicators do the same functions with the same language but with different speed'' even if we use multithreading so code need to be multithreading friendly

Re: FSB and Processor Speed

null@example.com (tnickel) — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 10:12:48 +0000

Hi,
Intel I7 3770, 2.4Ghz, 16 GB, 1600 Mhz DDR3
Windows 7 ultimate 64 bit
Score: 228

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Amd Bulldozer 8120, 3.1 Ghz, 16 GB 1600 Mhz DDR3
Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit
Score 132
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Intel I7 920, 8GB, 1100 Mhz
Windows Vista 64
Score 130
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thomas

Re: FSB and Processor Speed

null@example.com (Popov) — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 22:18:25 +0000

kukreknecmi wrote:

Pentium G620 2.6ghz / 2core
Dell Latitude E5430 Notebook
CPU i5 3210m 2 Core 4 thread 2.5 ghz base / 2.9ghz on turbo with 2 loaded cores
...
Single-instance 168 Points
2x instance : 142+142 points
4x instance : 93+92+93+91 points

I'm thinking how to make FSB Pro generator. The most probable solution for now looks to be several generator cycles working in parallel on a single data set and entry parameters. Probably the result will be similar or a little better than what you received for 4 working copies - 2x performance comparing with a single instance.

Re: FSB and Processor Speed

null@example.com (kukreknecmi) — Wed, 02 Jan 2013 14:19:11 +0000

Pentium G620 2.6ghz / 2core
2gb DDR3 ram @ 1066mhz @ CL9
Win 7 32bit
Score :
Single-instance 134 points.
2 x instance : 118 + 117 points.

Core2 E4400 @ 2.96 Ghz / 370mhz FSB / 962mhz DDR2 @ CL5
2GB ram
Win 7 32bit
Score :
Single-instance 113 points.
2x instance : 100 + 91 points.

Dell Latitude E5430 Notebook
CPU i5 3210m 2 Core 4 thread 2.5 ghz base / 2.9ghz on turbo with 2 loaded cores
4 gb ram win32
Score :
Single-instance 168 Points
2x instance : 142+142 points
4x instance : 93+92+93+91 points

Sry for repost, added bench under multi-instances.

Re: FSB and Processor Speed

null@example.com (kukreknecmi) — Wed, 02 Jan 2013 12:39:55 +0000

Pentium G620 2.6ghz
2gb DDR3 ram @ 1066mhz @ CL9
Win 7 32bit
Score : 134 points.

Re: FSB and Processor Speed

null@example.com (kukreknecmi) — Wed, 02 Jan 2013 05:37:19 +0000

Your Laptop's i5 and Xeon's scores seems reasonable. Yet x6's and 3930k scores seems weird. They should have been much higher especially 3930 should perform better than Xeon, It seems a bit inconsistent, dunno why.

I have tested on another system :

E4400 @ 2.96 Ghz / 370mhz FSB / 962mhz DDR2 @ CL5
2GB ram
Win 7 32bit
Score : 113 points.

Re: FSB and Processor Speed

null@example.com (ab) — Wed, 02 Jan 2013 02:25:31 +0000

My tests on a few different systems today:

Dell Latitude E4310 Laptop
Intel Core i5 M520 @ 2.40Ghz (2C)
4GB RAM
Windows 7 Professional N x64
Benchmark: 116

Dell R620 Server
Dual Intel Xeon E5-2630 @ 2.30Ghz (12C/24T)
32GB RAM
Windows 2012 Datacenter
Benchmark: 143

Dell Studio XPS 7100
AMD Phenom II X1090T @ 3.20Ghz (6C)
16GB RAM
Windows 2008 R2 Server
Benchmark: 114

Clone (ASUS MB) System
Intel i7-3930K @ 3.20Ghz (6C/12T)
64GB RAM
Windows 2008 R2 Server
Benchmark: 110

Not a major difference in performance given the huge differences in hardware that I tested against, although looking to forward (eventually) being able to run a performance test on the same hardware with a multi-threaded version

Re: FSB and Processor Speed

null@example.com (kukreknecmi) — Tue, 01 Jan 2013 21:04:53 +0000

I asked a friend with fx-8350 @ 4.3ghz / turbo off, he said score was 147.
With 4 instances, scores was : 91 91 88 86

With i5 3210m, with 1 instances i got 168, as written in previous post
With 4 instances, scores was : 93 92 93 91

He didint do the test setting the affinity, so i dont know if it will improve / effect performance. From what i have experienced, 2 core assigned to 1 instance of program is enough. With Win7 is unaware of AMD FX's module system, it may be scheduling threads in un-optimal way. So assigning an instance of SFB to the cores in a custom way may increase the performance a bit(assigning core0 and core2 to 1st instance of program, where core0 and core2 are on the same module ).

Yet i'm a bit dissappointed wih fx8350's performance tho.

I also disabled Core Parking on Win7, which increased multi-threading performance in some programs, off course no effect on SFB.

Re: FSB and Processor Speed

null@example.com (yavor99) — Tue, 01 Jan 2013 17:41:42 +0000

kukreknecmi has a beast there

Pentium Dual-Core E5200 @ 2.50GHz
4 GB DDR3 (single channel)
Windows 7 64bit
Scored 89

Re: FSB and Processor Speed

null@example.com (kukreknecmi) — Tue, 01 Jan 2013 16:42:22 +0000

Dell Latitude E5430 Notebook
CPU i5 3210m 2 Core 4 thread 2.5 ghz base / 2.9ghz on turbo with 2 loaded cores
4 gb ram win32

Score : 168 Points.

Re: FSB and Processor Speed

null@example.com (footon) — Mon, 31 Dec 2012 22:22:45 +0000

Benchmarking works ok, believable score achieved!

Happy New Year!

Re: FSB and Processor Speed

null@example.com (Popov) — Mon, 31 Dec 2012 21:30:20 +0000

Here is FSB_v2.74.0.0.exe with benchmark test.

Tools -> Additional -> Run Performance Test

It shows a score in points.
Base score is 100 points. This is the score for my development notebook.
The higher, the better

DELL Vostro1700 Notebook
CPU Intel(R) Core2 Duo CPU T9300 @ 2.50GHz 2 Cores
RAM 4.00 GB
Windows 7 Professional 64

Score: 98 points.

Re: FSB and Processor Speed

null@example.com (kukreknecmi) — Mon, 31 Dec 2012 14:04:16 +0000

Sisoft Sandra's .net Multimedia may give an idea about how the processors may perform at FSB (Sandra 2013). I'm not sure how much SFB use/call transcendentals functions, but if not that much in the low level(i'm clueless the way Microsoft's IL to x86 assemly translation for SFB , if it reorganize the low level code structure or not), then Sandra's .net Multimedia can give idea.

Although i'm not %100 sure if Sandra's .net x1 Integer / x1 Float performance test will reflect at the same amount to SFB. If so, AMD's new Vishera processors looks like they can be good performer for SFB (fx-8350/20 , fx-6300).

Re: FSB and Processor Speed

null@example.com (Sam M.) — Sun, 30 Dec 2012 21:19:14 +0000

ab, thanks for getting back to me on this and for all the great information. Will likely read further on dedicated vs. shared cores to improve the feel I have for the comparison.

I agree that a ratings system of some kind would be an excellent way to pinpoint which chip style/architecture is approximately ideal for FSB. Thanks Popov for already beginning to entertaining the idea.

In the long run I think it's an excellent bit of information to have for those looking to max out the utility of the software.

This is a radically restricted test, yet gives enough idea to compare my i5 vs. core2. From that kind of comparision, i found that i5 do %75 more calculations in the given time(both are set to same freq. etc.), for the single instance of program.
In my opinion, this kind of comunity driven benchmark system can maintain easily. A script can be made to set options automatically. So you will have more time for other kind of developments i guess.

I think this sounds like an interesting idea as well.

Also, in lieu of (or in wait for) a performance measurement included in the software, any anecdotal reports the community might have regarding compared performance between individual set-ups would be great for expanding the amount of information available.

Re: FSB and Processor Speed

null@example.com (Popov) — Sun, 30 Dec 2012 16:52:58 +0000

I think we have to take the maximum from utilizing cpu cores first. Unfortunately I'm not experienced in parallel programming. Once FSB beta is ready, we can discuss and improve the architecture of the computations algorithm.