Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 18:58:24 10/29/98
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On October 29, 1998 at 18:27:10, Terry Presgrove wrote: >Bob,Ed programers everywhere....just awe struck by the lastest >super computer just unveiled by V.P. Gore. At 3.9 Trilion calculations >per second just how strong would Crafty , Rebel, any of the comercialy >available programs be? Unless I misunderstood its Over 15,000 times faster >the the fastest PC's currrently available. More than 5,800 >processors....wouldn't it be nice to play around with this baby for just a day? first warning is a large number of processors... ie it isn't a shared memory machine, which means that it is not easy or efficient to distribute the search on such machines. If you have seen crafty on a 4 processor machine, and expect that to scale so such a machine, you'll be disappointed... However Sequent makes a 32 processor xeon-based machine that features a shared memory. *that* would scream... IE a NPS of something around 10M would be easy...
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