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Subject: Re: Searching 18-20 ply just using nullmove

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 10:38:28 08/18/00

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On August 18, 2000 at 07:20:20, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:
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>First of all a 64 cpu machine is like, let's guess: 50 million dollars?

5 million, give or take a couple million.

>So also in 9 years of time we can't afford that.
>
>Secondly a 64 processor alpha is perhaps not having shared memory, so getting
>a good speedup is real tough then.

It's SMP.

>But i think bigger hashtables are giving your goal quicker as you think.

I was figuring 4 Gig ram per CPU.  The memory bus on that machine is
astonishing, also.



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