Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 17:35:46 02/14/00
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On February 14, 2000 at 20:16:34, Dann Corbit wrote: >On February 14, 2000 at 00:23:01, Robert Hyatt wrote: >[snip] >>I now have a cluster of 8 quad xeon 550 machines, with a _very_ fast >>interconnection (giganet). The 550's are about 1.5X my 400 in speed, >>and 8 of those is at least 10x my quad 400. Of course, there are far >>faster machines and I might fiddle with some. Dell is selling an 8-way >>xeon machine, and then there is "digital". > >Digital is COMPAQ now. > >I suspect that crafty on a 32 CPU TRU64 Alpha machine with the latest compiler >would be unbeatable by anything except Deep Blue. > >You might try to get one of those beauties for the next WCCC. It would be good >publicity for both UAB and for COMPAQ to win the world title. I had a good 16 cpu machine set up for the last WCCC... but I couldn't attend personally and we had the piece-meal enforcement of the "the author must attend rule". I don't think it would be invincible on that machine, but it would be strong as hell... The xeon is plenty strong already.
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