Author: Ernst A. Heinz
Date: 01:44:36 10/30/98
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On October 29, 1998 at 21:58:24, Robert Hyatt wrote: >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... Hmh, AFAIK the Sequent machines are all NUMA types with a shared *address space* but non-uniform memory access times. I sincerely doubt that your strongly coupled DTS scales well on such machines. But I am happy to be proven wrong by experimental results ... :-) =Ernst=
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