Author: Daniel Pineo
Date: 13:37:42 04/25/05
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On April 25, 2005 at 13:25:33, Dann Corbit wrote: >On April 23, 2005 at 17:19:15, Daniel Pineo wrote: > >>On April 22, 2005 at 21:27:22, Tony Petters wrote: >> >>>I hope they force every program to use one CPU with an equal amount of RAM, >>>otherwise, the games are not even ! >>> >>>Does anyone disagree with this ? >>> >>>Is HYDRA going to play with all 32 processors ? >> >>Why not just have a few hardware classes? >> >>Open class: any hardware allowed >>SMP class: multi-processor/multi-core hardware allowed, but no specialized >>chess hardware >>Single core class: only single core processors allowed >> >>The idea isn't necessarily to make everything _perfectly_ even, but to just give >>the lightweights a place to compete. Like in boxing, not all boxers in a weight >>class need to have _exactly_ the same weight, but they are close enough where >>talent, and not brute strength, play the dominant factor. >> >>Also, as a consumer looking to buy a program for a single processor home >>computer, this kind of comparison will be more useful than knowing that hydra, >>or a 16 SMP version of shredder won. > >It will be like the US car ads "The best vehicle in its class"[*] > >[*] consisting of 2 door sedans of over 375 horsepower and selling for $87,000 >or more, manufactured on a tuesday. That's better than having the nascar, formula 1, and supersonic rocket cars all competing together.
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