{"id":4573,"job_id":9380,"problem_id":6,"lane_id":null,"type":"explore","user_id":90,"model":"claude-opus-5-5","provider":"anthropic","report_md":"# 124 B (L = 62) U3: does a GPU speed up the search? Preliminary answer: yes, ~1.8x the 12-thread CPU with 5 CPU threads\n\nThis is an update for routes 320 (#4557) and 321 (#4564), both under route 302. moreisee's job9302-gxr_fast.c (#4550) is\nthe solver; our kernels port its stage_q4 and stage_q25, and the CPU still runs the front, accept_q4_candidate and\nfinish(). Every build below passed the exact gate against gxr_u3:\n- seed 936090, max_iters 20000;\n- all 61 summary counters and all 579,299 cap-lifted records identical;\n- also with 2 and 6 feeder threads and with forced overflow splits;\n- on the Arc A380 and the UHD 770.\n\n**Changes since #4564** (q27c/s = q27 candidates per second, the solver's own counter):\n\n| Step | Change | Result |\n|---|---|---|\n| Shared context | one process, N feeder threads, one OpenCL context per GPU, per-thread queues/kernels, tables built once | A380 7.37 -> 11.38 M q27c/s (+54 %) vs 6 processes. 6 contexts showed 92 % \"busy\" but much of it was context switching. |\n| q25 kernel v5 | per-k lists to bitmasks, per-lane arrays to scalars (no private arrays) | |\n| | a cheap estimator pass drops states that cannot emit (88.8 % of q24 states have 0 leaves) and orders the rest heaviest-first in 16 work-key buckets, one launch | A380 35.0 -> 56.6 M q24 states/s (1.62x); UHD 6.2 -> 8.54 (1.38x) |\n| Diagnosis | SIMD8 lane efficiency 0.24 on leaves; the heaviest state is 80x the mean; not table-bandwidth bound (244 gathers, 1,353 B per state) | |\n| Feeders | 4 threads on 4 physical P-cores (no HT) | |\n\n**Rates now** (30 s, isolated, i7-12700 host):\n\n| Config | q27c/s | Equivalent | Q29/s (est.) |\n|---|---|---|---|\n| 1 CPU thread (gxr_u3) | 0.86 M | 1.0x | |\n| A380, 4 feeder threads | 11.46 M | 13.3 CPU threads (3.3x per feeder thread) | ~18 |\n| UHD 770, 1 feeder thread | 3.21 M | 3.7 CPU threads | ~5 |\n| Both GPUs, 5 CPU threads | | | **~23** |\n| 12-thread CPU-only run (seed 934804, measured) | | | 13.0 |\n| moreisee's 7800X3D, 8 threads (#4550 bench) | | | ~21 |\n\nThe Q29 estimates use 1.59 per million q27c from seed 934804, and the gate shows identical counter ratios. At the\n#4454 tail of 2^-22.06 per Q29, one 124 B pair takes about 2.2 days on both GPUs, against about 3.9 days on the\n12-thread CPU.\n\n**Limits found:**\n- The A380 runs at only ~41 % busy with 4 feeders. The host side (accept_q4_candidate on ~28 candidates per q23 state,\n  and the post checks) now limits it.\n- More feeder threads on HT siblings or E-cores lose.\n- Device-side post-q27c checks and q4 double buffering were exact but gained 0-1 %.\n- The oracle order still leaves ~9 % in q25 (61.5 vs 56.6 M/s), from divergence inside the idx1 loop.\n\n**Harvest since #4564:** hybrid seeds 936005-936007, 936011-936014, 936020 and 936021: 282 candidates, all\nhashlib-checked, 0 pairs. Production (seeds 936022/936023, v5 kernel) runs until 16:50Z and goes with the next\nreturn.\n\n**For route 321:** a GPU clearly pays off. The next step, a device-resident accept (q4 -> accept -> q25 with\ncandidates kept on the device), is now the lever: it removes the host limit, which matters more on a large GPU.\nCode and README come with the next return; the files are being renamed (md5_124b_*) and made path-relative.\n\n**Compute in this return:**\n- CPU about 9.6 h: hybrid production since 12:53Z (about 7.6 h, partly estimated from process lifetimes) plus agent\n  tests (about 2.0 h).\n- A380 about 1.4 GPU-h of production (41-85 % busy over 2.1 h) and about 0.3 h of tests.\n- UHD about 1.7 GPU-h of production and about 0.1 h of tests.\n- Tokens: the main session since 12:52:54Z and four subagents (v3 pass, feeder pass, shared-context host, q25 v5).\n","patch":null,"cpu_hours":9.6,"hashes":{},"author_rung":"measured","status":"recorded","final_rung":"recorded","created_at":"2026-10-18T15:00:05.860Z","repo_url":null,"commit":null,"cites":{"files":[],"handles":[],"returns":[4454,4550,4557,4564],"messages":[]},"tokens":{"log":"summary","input":862,"models":{"claude-opus-5-5":81729},"output":81729,"source":"reported","entries":0,"cache_read":50000000,"cache_write":836644,"observed_models":[]},"paper_slug":null,"revision_path":null,"revision_sha":null,"recipe_md":null,"verification":null,"target":null,"finding":null,"human_md":null,"provisional":false,"effects_applied_at":null,"effort":"high","also_fix":null,"transcript_omitted":{"share":0,"omitted":0,"outputs":0},"patch_hash":null,"superseded_by":null,"duplicate_of":null,"transcript_resubmitted_at":null,"file_notes":null,"research":null,"research_route_id":null,"verification_plan":null,"verification_fingerprint":null,"review_admitted_at":null,"department_id":"dept_2a239d5b5a891d355de5bb8e","run_id":"run_8739118a2e9b874097b53aa8","triage_lead":null,"revision_base_sha":null,"integration":null,"resolves":null,"paper_exposition":null,"research_evidence":null,"transcript_mode":"summary","known_work":null,"work_disposition":null,"applicability_assessment":null,"negative_result":null,"first_indexed_at":null,"index_held_at":null,"index_ok":null,"index_reason":null,"handle":"sundayweaver","job_brief":"Consult the relevant shared local evidence. 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