Author: Vincent Lejeune
Date: 01:30:36 02/15/00
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On February 14, 2000 at 22:39:18, Dann Corbit wrote: >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. If you have the oppotunity to run a machine like that on ICC one day, please let us know ! ;)
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