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Subject: Re: Pentium 4

Author: Albert Silver

Date: 00:38:38 06/29/00

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On June 29, 2000 at 02:21:10, Gregor Overney wrote:

>>Not even close yet.  That hardware would be approximately 1% of the power of
>>the DB hardware.  And that is being _very_ generous...
>
>1% is a pretty good estimate for a four processor machine using four P5-4
>running at 1.5 GHz using a four channel RDRAM bus that delivers 3.2 GB of data.
>Estimate 500 kNodes per CPU times 4 = 2M Nodes = 1% of DB's avarage performance.

If one CPU achieves 500k nodes, I doubt very much that 4 CPUs will achieve 2M
nodes, unless 100% efficiency has been achieved. Crafty is apparently the most
efficient at this level though only Bob would be able to say how well it should
do.

                                      Albert Silver



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