Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 13:08:18 05/30/02
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On May 30, 2002 at 13:58:04, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: >On May 30, 2002 at 09:08:22, Slater Wold wrote: > >>On May 30, 2002 at 08:33:52, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: >> >>>On May 30, 2002 at 01:23:35, Slater Wold wrote: >>> >>>>On May 29, 2002 at 20:34:37, Scott Gasch wrote: >>>> >>>>>On May 29, 2002 at 19:50:20, Ricardo Gibert wrote: >>>>> >>>>>>On May 29, 2002 at 18:39:03, Scott Gasch wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>>I've been gently informed that I'm not supposed to talk about the speed of >>>>>>>not-released processors, sorry about that. >>>>>>> >>>>>>>Scott >>>>>> >>>>>>I have to admit I realized you were unwittingly violating an NDA, but my >>>>>>curiosity got the better of me. I should have told you straight off what you >>>>>>were disclosing might get you in trouble. My apologies. >>>>> >>>>>No apologies needed, it's my own stupidity at fault here. For the record I'm >>>>>not in any trouble. I self-censored when it was pointed out to me that I could >>>>>possibly get into trouble with this. >>>>> >>>>>Scott >>>> >>>>Well hell, now you got us all curious. Now I wanna know what was said. ;) >>> >>>Well i got info from deep throat lucky. Other source in this case. >>>This source confirms that for 64 bits applications like crafty the >>>i2 is very fast. 1.5 million nodes a second is not bad. >>> >>>your bench you posted here at 2.53Ghz P4 was like 950k a second or so? >>> >>>that's of course major victory for intel getting 1.5 MLN nodes a second >>>on a 1Ghz processor. >> >>P4 2.53Ghz was 965k nps. >>Profiled P4 2.53Ghz was 1.09M nps. >>Profiled AMD 1.73Ghz was 1.0M nps. >>Profiled dual AMD 1.73Ghz was 1.6M nps. >> >>So one i2 is == to a Dual AMD 1.73Ghz. (IN TERMS OF SPEED.) >> >>And those suckers are *very* scalable. (While AMDs are not ATM.) > >right, regrettably the price doesn't scale down >much of such a 16 processor mckinley. like $10 million? > >It's different league of course. No way it will be that expensive. Maybe 1 million to start. 4-way and 8-way boxes ought to be "reasonable" (considering that when I bought my first quad xeon, they sold for well over $10,000.)
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