Author: Robert Henry Durrett
Date: 17:13:26 06/17/02
I recently contacted Chessbase [info@chessbase.com] and received an email response saying that they will soon provide the information I requested, and more, about the computer. It will appear on their Chessbase News webpage. In the meantime, it's not too late to speculate! While discussing the computer [for the Kramnik match] with my son, who is here at my house for a visit, he noted that "there are plenty of 64-bit 64-processor computers running under UNIX." When pressed for details, he could not give me any because he does not use such "beasts" in his job. Maybe someone here is more familiar with this? The commercial version of Fritz runs on PCs that have Windows operating systems simply because the customers want to put Fritz on their home PCs, which run under Windows. But is there any reason, or LAW, that says that the computer they will use for the Kramnik match cannot run under UNIX? Essentially the same situation applies for word length. The Fritz customers have 32-bit computers, so Fritz is designed to run on those 32-bit computers. But is there any reason, or LAW, that says that the computer they will use for the Kramnik match cannot be a 64-bit computer? i.e. have a 64-bit deep fritz running under UNIX? If so, do any of the "UNIX-types" here at ICD/CCC know how fast the processors could be in that case? Which processors would they use? What do you think? Is an 8-processor 64-bit computer running under UNIX a possibility for the Deep Fritz versus Kramnik October 2002 match? Bob D.
This page took 0.04 seconds to execute
Last modified: Thu, 15 Apr 21 08:11:13 -0700
Current Computer Chess Club Forums at Talkchess. This site by Sean Mintz.