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Subject: Re: Pentium 4

Author: blass uri

Date: 01:43:29 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.

The nodes per second are totally irrelevent.

If you want to use them to evaluate calculating power then find a game when the
target is not to win but to generate more nodes per second.

Uri



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