Author: Tom Kerrigan
Date: 10:27:45 06/29/00
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On June 29, 2000 at 04:43:29, blass uri wrote: >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. While NPS numbers are a long cry from the whole chess-strength story, they are not meaningless. Because so little is known about DB, all we have to compare are NPS... -Tom
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