Author: Matthew Hull
Date: 20:46:25 08/29/03
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On August 29, 2003 at 18:40:23, Mridul Muralidharan wrote: >Hi Mathew, > ><snip> >>Thanks for your input. I've wondered because recent statements by Bob referred >>to the changes required as "tweaks", which made it sound like it was not a large >>effort, and that if he had access to a NUMA machine, he might work on it. > >I'm not sure of what/why Prof. Bob Hyatt may have made those comments. But to >get a program like crafty to work properly in a numa machine will not be trivial >- and it wont be tweaks , but something more. > > >> >>Do the AMD duals count as NUMA? Or an old dual G4 Mac? If so, I'd think those >>might be quite cheap, relatively speaking. Perhaps someone could donate one for >>the purpose. Somone with as little as a dual, Linux/BSD/OSX and a cable modem >>could effectively donate machine time by creating accounts for the good >>professor and/or his minions, perhaps. >> >>Just a thought. >> >>Regards, >>Matt > >Duals , etc count as SMP machine not cc-numa which I was refering to. >A search on google game me : >http://www.sara.nl/userinfo/reservoir/ccnuma/ which can be mined for more info ! > >I'm sure Prof Bob Hyatt may be able to get hold of a numa machine (or a user >account in one) if he wants to , through his college/university , for crafty. > >I hope you were not refering to me as one of the "minions" ;) No, I did not think you were one of his university students. :) I thought AMD duals might be NUMA because Crafty gets a relatively poor speedup on them compared to XEONS with interleaved memory. MH
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