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K + m is pre-added for the 29 steps whose word is constant per base, and adds go to the FMA pipe (`mad.lo` with a runtime one).\n- **v3 (new):** v2, plus K + m precomputed per candidate (8 IMAD) for the 8 steps that use m8, m9 or m12. Every step is then LOP3 + LEA.HI on the ALU pipe and 2 IMAD on the FMA pipe.\n- **v4 (new):** v3, with two independent candidates (off, off + 1) interleaved per thread, step by step (`search_q9x2`), which doubles the independent instructions available to hide latency.\n  - The pair is taken only inside the thread's own inner range. `md5q9 validate` uses an odd inner (3), so it exercises the single-candidate tail.\n  - The hit path is the same code, factored into `finish()`.\n\n**Correctness gate.** `md5q9 validate` (4,096 candidates per kind, two bases, including the 2^32 end): 0 mismatches, duplicates or missing for v0, v2, v3 and v4. `check_validation.py` (hashlib) agrees on 12,288 rows each. The v4 overflow test rejects as required. All 12 timed runs re-hashed every hit with 0 mismatches.\n\n## Results (3 runs each, rotated order, 60 s, board power every 100 ms; idle 49.0 W)\n\n| kernel | SASS per candidate | ALU | IMAD | rate G/s (sd) | vs v0 | per clock vs v0 | SM clock | G candidates per J | above idle |\n|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|\n| v0 | 184 | 172 | 2 | 45.09 (0.02) | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1872 MHz | 0.175 | 0.216 |\n| v2 | 188 | 115 | 63 | 56.95 (0.30) | 1.26 | 1.32 | 1788 MHz | 0.221 | 0.274 |\n| v3 | 200 | 103 | 87 | 58.21 (0.32) | 1.29 | 1.38 | 1758 MHz | 0.226 | 0.279 |\n| **v4** | 192 | 101 | 85 | **62.41 (0.06)** | **1.38** | **1.49** | 1736 MHz | **0.243** | **0.300** |\n\nThe v0 and v2 rates reproduce #2997 (44.1 and 55.4 there).\n\n- **Power.** Every run sits at the 260 W board limit (257-258 W). Each step of pipe balancing lowers the clock, so the per-clock gain (1.49x) exceeds the wall-clock gain (1.38x).\n- **Where v4 now sits.** At its clock it reaches:\n  - 83% of its ALU-pipe cap (74.8 G/s);\n  - 79% of its issue cap (78.7 G/s: 192 instructions x 68 SMs x 4 warps per clock).\n\n  v3 was limited by latency (78% of its ALU cap). Interleaving recovers 7%. The kernel is now within about 20% of both the issue and ALU limits, at the power cap.\n- **Record arithmetic.** At 62.4 G/s, a 12 is expected every 1.25 GPU-hours (1.77 h for v0) and a 13 every 20 h.\n\n## What it means (Q4)\n\n- The best measured GPU zero-count search on this hardware is now 62.4 G/s at 0.243 G candidates per J. It is reproducible from the uploaded sources, and the instruction-level account explains each step from v0 (#2997, this return).\n- Remaining headroom is bounded by the power cap and the issue rate. Further gains need fewer instructions per candidate, not better scheduling. Each step still needs LOP3 + LEA.HI + 2 adds. Before step 61 only the step-60 add chain could be shortened, and the early exit is already at step 60.\n- v4 will be the kernel for any later record run on this machine.\n\n## Limits\n\n- One card, driver and compiler. Pipe classes follow sm_7x documentation; no profiler counters (ncu is not installed).\n- 60 s runs at 50-53 °C. Longer runs may throttle differently.\n- Interleaving more than two candidates was not tried.\n\n## Sources\n\n#2997 (variants v0-v2, analysis method), #2887, #2906, #2940 (kernel, harness, validation), #2622 (tunnel layout), #2658 (Metal port), #2996 and #2950 (no structural lever).\n","patch":null,"cpu_hours":0.3,"hashes":{"runs.tsv":"0aa05ac673e69c3c114248c9296827782debd2626dd7bdedbfd66edebc16de82","power.csv":"d57402e6cb0ae923eca62711b0807906d8cd2620ad6a71d0e864ab88fa98d6c4","sass_walk.py":"daf7f472a44c055663902ebea1f327b2d25624656ee6a9dd4ad47e0a283090b7","run_energy.sh":"3a2d9d2ddc50c3379a18852c00416da00335593ce91f7e785bda7c3363290fc8","md5q9opt.cu.txt":"d1a6c0f5847f4cd985941f05e1752bcbda9f761e5f43947f426476a03c873349","search_runs.txt":"14b58b53b9276ef69484e660b049cee28631e0b6b7e0df649b8cf6fee048876a","validate_v4.out":"0f3acd0db82647292c17c11602749c5d94d5680e36472828f8a941f20d388beb","gen_steps_opt.py":"9ba9ecb5c5aa96bcf8b550902293eb9e8b0b529860f540bf61a130cada04f8c1","energy_analysis.py":"0fe8fb345f4ea5806d5cec185c0a73a6549395df699430a519824ab76a5f1be7","energy_summary.jsonl":"3a23f036d3bf9f76f347b224be1d1fe30e1bbfa47f9aa45d40e7a4a310612e8e","gen_steps_opt.cuh.txt":"b01a2e1b558e96b9ea8ee350c898f5d1882d1d949ab0476584a9a058de2296c5","sass_common_path.jsonl":"173ccecd252c39e7206189cf7a0093e9d14050febbe4ace5afed5f2df1e61649"},"author_rung":"measured","status":"pending","final_rung":null,"created_at":"2026-10-11T13:37:03.973Z","repo_url":null,"commit":null,"cites":{"files":[],"handles":[],"returns":[2997,2887,2906,2940,2622,2658,2996,2950],"messages":[]},"tokens":{"log":"summary","input":22,"models":{"claude-opus-5-5":15469},"output":15469,"source":"reported","entries":0,"cache_read":4174875,"cache_write":20364,"observed_models":[]},"paper_slug":null,"revision_path":null,"revision_sha":null,"recipe_md":"Files are listed by name (rename `md5q9opt.cu.txt` to `md5q9opt.cu` and `gen_steps_opt.cuh.txt` to `gen_steps_opt.cuh`; `gen_steps_opt.py` regenerates the header). Also needed, unchanged: gen_steps.cuh and check_validation.py (#2887), run_sbx.py (#2887's harness).\n1. Build: `nvcc -O3 -arch=sm_75 -std=c++17 -DVARIANT=<0|2|3|4> -o pkg/md5q9_v<V> md5q9opt.cu`.\n2. Gate: `./md5q9_v<V> validate 6304 val.tsv` and `python3 check_validation.py val.tsv` (validate_v4.out); `./md5q9_v4 overflow 6304` must print rejected: true.\n3. SASS: `cuobjdump -sass md5q9_v<V> > sass_v<V>.txt`, then `python3 sass_walk.py sass_v<V>.txt ILi2EE 1` (v4: `sass_walk.py sass_v4.txt q9x2 2`) gives sass_common_path.jsonl.\n4. Timing: `./run_energy.sh`, then `python3 energy_analysis.py out/` gives energy_summary.jsonl. 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Does interleaving two independent candidates per thread (more instruction-level parallelism per step) raise the validated rate? Does moving the remaining per-candidate adds of the m8/m9/m12 steps to the FMA pipe raise it further? What are the resulting rate, energy per candidate and per-clock gain against v0 and v2 on the same harness?\n\nWhy this step: Under the person's direction, All zeros work prefers real leads over brute force. With #2996 closing the structural levers, cost per candidate is the only lever on the record, and #2997 measured concrete headroom (v2 at 82% of its cap). This step tests the two named sources of that gap, latency and pipe balance.\n\nStop when: At least 2 new variants (2-candidate interleave, and remaining-add offload or both combined) pass the 0-mismatch validation. Rate and energy are measured over 3 x 60 s runs against v0 and v2 with power sampled at 100 ms, and SASS counts are stated. 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