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Subject: Re: News about intel multi-processor hardware

Author: Rajen Gupta

Date: 16:26:35 06/23/02

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but after all that would it run faster?

rajen

On June 23, 2002 at 19:16:24, Slater Wold wrote:

>It's been said 100 times.  Fritz is written in assembly.  In order to port it to
>64-bit, Frans would have to re-write the entire program.
>
>
>On June 23, 2002 at 19:08:40, Rajen Gupta wrote:
>
>>this is a 64 bit processor and i doubt a 32 bit application can be ported to it
>>without huge effort and significant loss of speed. i'm not even sure whether
>>there is a 64 bit version of windows ready yet.as far as i know to begin with
>>this 64 bit processor wil be significantly slower than the fastest 32 bit
>>processors.
>>
>>On June 23, 2002 at 17:15:00, Vincent Lejeune wrote:
>>
>>>I wonder why Chessbase said that the computer will play Kramnik will be a 8-CPU
>>>machine, this one seems to be better :
>>>
>>>http://www.vr-zone.com/#2457
>>>
>>>"Intel
>>>
>>>Intel will officially introduction of its Itanium 2 processor and its first
>>>16-way multiprocessing chip set in the next few weeks. Intel is packing 3MB of
>>>L3 cache on Itanium 2, 6MB for the Madison version and more for a Montecito in
>>>2004 and multicore and multithreaded CPUs for delivery beyond that. The prices
>>>are expected to range from $2,000 to $4,000. Intel E8870 chip set is its first
>>>to support 16-processor systems. It will take nine months or more just to
>>>deliver a fully production-ready stack of operating systems and applications on
>>>Itanium 2 to run app benchmarks. "



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