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SGNIPS is a fictional term, which would sound like the most (in)famous MIPS (mega instructions per second).

SGNIPS is intended for a Crobots benchmarking test only.

Def. SGNIPS = CROBOTS virtual machine cycles per second.

To calculate your PC's SGNIPS (for each single CPU / core available) follow this procedure:

• Download and install the Crobots virtual machine binary suitable for your CPU / architecture from here;
• Download and save in your Crobots path the robot 'bench.r' source code;
• Compile to '.ro' binary the 'bench.r' robot with

  crobots -c bench.r

  If your Crobots executable version does not support the binary compiling (-c option), skip this step;
• Trace the time execution of this command line (UNIX):

  crobots -m500 -l200000 bench.ro bench.ro bench.ro bench.ro </dev/null >/dev/null 2>&1

  or command line (Windows):

  crobots -m500 -l200000 bench.ro bench.ro bench.ro bench.ro <NUL 2>NUL >NUL

  or any equivalent command line suitable for your OS.
  If your Crobots executable version does not support the binary compiling (-c option), replace 'bench.ro' with 'bench.r'.
• If T is the execution time in seconds, the formula is:

  SGNIPS = (200010*500) / T

Example (UNIX):

~/crobots$ time crobots -m500 -l200000 bench.ro bench.ro bench.ro bench.ro </dev/null >/dev/null 2>&1

real    0m11.413s
user    0m11.373s
sys     0m0.008s

~/crobots$ bc -l

(200010 * 500) / 11.413
8762376.23762376237623762376

        

That PC (each single CPU / core) runs at approx. 8762376 SGNIPS!

Note: Test your PC under a CPU low-load (not other heavy processes running); do not run the command line with less than four robots: in this case you will obtain fake (not comparable) results. Run multiple tests to obtain a statistically better result.

To calculate your overall PC's multi-core SGNIPS (for all single CPU / core available) follow this procedure (only for UNIX/Linux with Python >=2.6 support):

• Download and install the Crobots virtual machine binary suitable for your CPU / architecture from here;
• Download and save in your Crobots path the robot 'bench.r' source code;
• Compile to '.ro' binary the 'bench.r' robot with

  crobots -c bench.r

  If your Crobots executable version does not support the binary compiling (-c option), you cannot forth more proceed!;
• Download, save and setup in your path the GoRobots Batch Tournament Manager from here;
• Test the execution with a command line that looks like:

  gorobots -type 4vs4 -config conf/BenchConf.yml -test

• If the previous test succeeds, get the time execution of this command line:

  gorobots -type 4vs4 -config conf/BenchConf.yml

• If T is the execution time in seconds, the formula is:

  Multi-core SGNIPS = (15*200010*500) / T

Example:

~/crobots$ gorobots -type 4vs4 -config conf/BenchConf.yml
2023/08/08 18:49:15 GoRobots v1.5.1-20211224
2023/08/08 18:49:15 Detected CPU(s)/core(s): 2
2023/08/08 18:49:15 Using 2 CPU(s)/core(s)
2023/08/08 18:49:15 Start processing 4vs4 ...
2023/08/08 18:50:40 Completed in 1m24.527178054s

~/crobots$ bc -l

(15 * 200010 * 500) / (60 + 24.527178054)
17746658.93899451389817244637

        

That machine runs at approx. 17746658 multi-core SGNIPS!

Note: Test your PC whilst a CPU low-load - not other heavy processes running; do not run the command line with different tournament parameters and/or configuration: in this case you will get fake (not comparable) results. Run multiple tests to get a better and statistically reliable result.
Due to the unavoidable overhead (logging and count post-processing) and the trivial multi-processing support, the overall multi-core SGNIPS might be not (surely it won't) the single SGNIPS value multiplies the number of the CPUs / cores used.