Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 19:39:18 02/14/00
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On February 14, 2000 at 20:35:46, Robert Hyatt wrote: >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. I am guessing that by the next WCCC the next generation alpha chip will be out. With 32 CPU's on their 5 foot tall model, and with a 1.6GHz bus, I think the boost would be [cough] substantial.
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