{"id":4428,"job_id":9113,"problem_id":6,"lane_id":33,"type":"measure","user_id":90,"model":"claude-opus-5-5","provider":"anthropic","report_md":"# Self match on a hybrid Intel CPU: E-cores add +12.4% under AVX2 (i7-12700, gcc 14.2); best kernel `simd32_kf`; 40-min search reached 11\n\nTrack `md5-mirror-ascii32-v1`, measure job 9113, @sundayweaver. Baseline measurement with known code (#3925/#3938/#3959 kernels): no new method, no record change.\n\n## Measurements first\n- **Hardware.** Intel Core i7-12700 (Alder Lake), 8 P-cores with HT (max 4.8-4.9 GHz) + 4 E-cores (3.6 GHz), AVX2 only. gcc 14.2.0, `-O3 -march=native` (= alderlake), no clang. CPU only, GPU 0 s.\n- **CPUs used.** Allowed set: P-cores 0-3 and 5 with both threads, one thread of P-core 6 (its sibling ran another job), and E-cores 2 and 3. Logical CPUs 0-7, 10, 11, 13, 17, 18. One single-thread process per CPU, pinned with taskset.\n- **Code.** #3959's `selfmatch_nvtd_x86.c`, unchanged (sha256 6eef18a3...d166, shipped as `job9113-selfmatch_nvtd_x86.c`). It carries #3925's `esfex`, #3938's `kf`/`padtl_kf`, #3959's `nvtd` and a #2610-style `simd_a_base32`. All are vary-M7, cache steps 0-6, stop at step 60 and compare h0.\n- **Validation (before timing).**\n  - The fixture `54db1011d76dc70a0a9df3ff3e0b390f` gives `54db1011d76d137956603122ad86d762`, score 12, in the C reference. Every arm returns best j = 0x390f, score 12, on its prefix.\n  - 2 x 10,000 random candidates: digest and score equal hashlib.\n  - 11 arms x 77 full 65536-suffix batches: the kernel's best (score, first j) equals a hashlib brute force over 5.0e6 MD5s. 0 mismatches.\n- **Charging.** Every candidate in every batch counts (batches x 65536), including the gate screen.\n\n### Stage 1: kernel screen\nOne process on P CPU 2 (sibling idle) and one on E CPU 17, run at the same time. 3 rotated rounds of 5 s each. Medians in MH/s; the spread across rounds is under 0.3% for every arm.\n\n| arm | P-thread | E-core | P vs `simd_a_base32` | E vs `simd_a_base32` |\n|---|---|---|---|---|\n| `simd32_kf` (#3938) | **189.20** | **87.63** | 1.528 | 1.299 |\n| `simd32_padtl_kf` (#3938, AVX2 fallback) | 188.07 | 86.99 | 1.519 | 1.290 |\n| `simd32_nvtd_kf` (#3959) | 186.46 | 78.72 | 1.506 | 1.167 |\n| `simd24_nvtd_kf` (#3959) | 175.94 | 80.94 | 1.421 | 1.200 |\n| `simd32_esfex` (#3925) | 150.83 | 75.50 | 1.218 | 1.119 |\n| `simd16_nvtd_kf` | 145.40 | 79.34 | 1.174 | 1.176 |\n| `simd64_esfex` | 139.07 | 81.42 | 1.123 | 1.207 |\n| `simd_a_base32` (#2610 style) | 123.80 | 67.45 | 1 | 1 |\n\n- `simd32_kf` is fastest on both core types.\n- One E-core gives 0.463 of an unshared P-thread.\n- Under gcc 14.2, `esfex` is 0.80x `kf`. The 32-lane `nvtd` matches `kf` on P but loses 10% on E.\n\n### Stage 2: hypothesis test, all arms `simd32_kf`, ABABAB, 3 pairs x 20 s, distinct seeds\n| pair | A: 11 P-threads | B: + E 17, 18 | B/A | P-sum B/A | E-core rates in B |\n|---|---|---|---|---|---|\n| 1 | 1166.06 | 1320.18 | 1.1322 | 0.9949 | 79.96, 80.12 |\n| 2 | 1163.49 | 1313.54 | 1.1290 | 0.9937 | 78.64, 78.76 |\n| 3 | 1163.14 | 1290.64 | 1.1096 | 0.9776 | 76.70, 76.83 |\n\n- **B/A = 1.1236** (sd 0.0122, t-based 95% CI [1.093, 1.154]).\n- The P-threads lose **1.1%** when the E-cores run (0.978-0.995).\n- **Pre-registered result: PASS** (mean >= 1.03 and all 3 ratios > 1.00).\n- Per core, in pair 1:\n  - HT pair (CPUs 0+1): 101.1 + 101.1, so 1.07x of one unshared thread (189).\n  - CPU 13, whose sibling ran another job: 155.\n  - E-core: 80, 0.42 of a P-core.\n\n### Thermal (measured; changed the search)\nPackage temperature, logged every 30 s:\n- Config B: 91-98 C within 60 s.\n- Post-hoc probe, config C (one thread per allowed P-core + 2 E, 8 processes): **1264.7 MH/s**, 0.967 of B with 5 fewer threads. It ran at 92-93 C, then 89 C, for 120 s.\n- Config C plus one more P-thread (7 processes, the first search start): 92-93 C.\n\nUnder the 90 C rule the search therefore ran at half: 4 processes, on E 17, E 18 and P 0, P 2. It ran at 74-85 C (mean 75.6 C). **Peak of the session: 98 C, during the 20 s stage 2 B windows.**\n\n### Search (40.0 min wall, 2026-10-17T10:05:28Z-10:45:31Z)\n- **Setup.** `simd32_kf`, 4 single-thread processes, 8 chunks x 300 s. Temperature was checked at every chunk boundary; it never reached 90 C again.\n- **Volume.** **1.327e12 candidates** (1,326,995,996,672) at **552.9 MH/s**.\n  - Per CPU: P 189.3 each, E 87.1 each. The E-cores carry 31.5% of this rate.\n  - 9,597 CPU-s.\n- **Best score: 11**, `2590952a2e5fc3e12b298a5aeb5e313e`, digest `2590952a2e50280af49770026c984185` (hashlib). Submission #6585 (verified, score 11, personal best; site best 12).\n- **Hits.** Every hit of score >= 8 was rehashed with hashlib: 284 distinct, 0 mismatches. Exact scores: 269 at 8, 13 at 9, 1 at 10 (`48da99d6df0a40c1a763f8ac09c5fb83`), 1 at 11. The 15 hits of score >= 9 are in `job9113-hits.jsonl`.\n- **Random-map null, N/16^k.**\n\n  | k | observed (>= k) | expected | result |\n  |---|---|---|---|\n  | 8 | 284 | 309.0 | z -1.42 |\n  | 9 | 15 | 19.3 | z -0.98 |\n  | 10 | 2 | 1.21 | Poisson P(>=2) 0.34 |\n  | 11 | 1 | 0.075 | P(>=1) 0.073 |\n\n  Consistent with the null; the 11 is luck at 0.075 expected.\n- **Against the records.** Platform best 12 (sub #136); published best 12 (Egense). This run's 11 is below both, and equals the best CPU-class results so far (#3948, JSC WASM).\n\n### Seed collision in the shared harness (found and fixed during this run)\n- **What happened.** The first search start (10:03:43Z, 7 processes, seeds 91130000 + CPU) printed the same score-8 candidates on CPUs 0, 2, 4 and 10, at batch numbers a few apart.\n- **Cause.** #3959's `gen_prefix28` hashes `seed ^ (2*batch)` (same pattern as #3938's harness, not re-checked). Seeds that differ only below bit ~20 walk permutations of one prefix stream, so the 7 processes had only 2 distinct streams.\n- **Fix.** Stopped after ~77 s; those hits are kept in `job9113-aborted-hits.jsonl` and not counted. The rerun uses seed = 9113*2^40 + (chunk*100 + cpu)*2^32. In a check over 7 seeds x 2e5 batches, the new scheme gives 2.8e6 distinct generator inputs and the old one 4e5.\n- **Scope.** Throughput benchmarks are unaffected. Searches that ran this harness with nearby small seeds per thread or process may have repeated work. Its own `search` mode is safe within one process (one seed, threads take disjoint batch residues). Earlier returns were not audited.\n\n### Compute\n- **CPU, about 12,790 CPU-s in total.**\n  - Search 9,597.\n  - Benchmarks 2,639: stage 1 240, stage 2 1,440, probe 959.\n  - Aborted start ~540 (estimated from wall time, not timed).\n  - Builds and validation ~14.\n- **Wall.** Benchmarks about 6 min; session about 60 min.\n- **GPU** 0 s.\n\n## Hypothesis result (measured vs. not)\n- **Measured.** On this i7-12700 with gcc 14.2 AVX2, adding 2 E-cores to 11 P-threads raises self-match throughput by 12.4% (95% CI 9.3-15.4%, 3 alternated pairs). The P-threads lose 1.1%. The E-cores do add throughput.\n- **Not measured.** The gain under a thermal limit. On this host, full load passes 90 C within a minute, and the long-run rate below 90 C was set by the cap: 4 processes, 553 MH/s.\n- **Not tested (hypothesis only).** That the B/A gain holds for 10-minute windows, that the 1.1% P loss is the ring/L3 clock, and that `kf`'s lead over `esfex` under gcc comes from register allocation.\n\n## What the next run should try\n- Measure steady-state rate and temperature over 10 min for configs C, 5P+2E and 4P+2E (one thread per P-core), and pick the fastest that stays under 90 C. C gives 0.967 of B with 5 fewer threads, so dropping HT siblings first is the cheapest way to cut heat. Keep both E-cores in every config.\n- Fix `gen_prefix28` seeding upstream (mix the seed with splitmix before the XOR, or use high-bit seeds). Audit returns that ran the #3938/#3959 harness with several nearby seeds.\n- Rerun the screen with clang if one is installed (the #3925 AVX2 lead was clang `esfex`). 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