Author: Vincent Lejeune
Date: 11:08:42 01/15/00
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On January 15, 2000 at 01:20:28, Robert Hyatt wrote: >It is time for my next project. Today I finished the PO for a new beowulf >cluster machine here. This machine will have 8 nodes, with each node being >a quad xeon 550mhz machine. The nodes will be connected by a gigabit/sec >switch. And no, it won't be crafty's permanent machine. But look for it to >do some interesting matches on ICC later this year when I get to the distributed >search. :) > >This is an interesting 'cluster' since it has 8 machines with 4 cpus per >node. We are adding 8 more machines this Summer. It will be a horse of >a box, and the initial 8-node box ought to be able to search at 8M nodes >per second easily... Somes basic questions after this breaking news : Will you split the tree as same way done in Crafty or closer to the root ? Is it important to have some power at each node or can you add a 4x Xeon800 node later (for example) ? Will this project keep the name 'Crafty' ? :) Waohw, Crafty on the footsteps of Cray Blitz ...
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