Author: stuart taylor
Date: 21:28:50 05/11/00
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On May 11, 2000 at 15:39:50, Dann Corbit wrote: >On May 11, 2000 at 15:33:09, Jason Williamson wrote: > >>On May 11, 2000 at 15:29:18, Dann Corbit wrote: >> >>>On May 11, 2000 at 15:14:30, Rajen Gupta wrote: >>> >>>>Hi all: i read on the chessbase site that junior will be playing in the >>>>supergrandmaster tournament on an 8 proceesor system-i thought that the maximum >>>>number of CPUs for a xeon based system is 4 and for a coppermine based system >>>>was 2.Will junior be playing on an alpha based system or has intel now built >>>>motherboards that can take more than 4 xeons? >>> >>>ProLiant 8500: >>>http://www.nt-advantage.com/adv-1999-09/adv-09-8way-pov.html >>> >>>If it were ported to Alpha, he could have a lot more CPU's than that. >>>Ludicrously more: >>>http://www.digital.com/hpc/news/news_hptc_review2000.html >>More? On 8 processors that program will be scary.... Of course on 100 >>processors it would be even more scary. :)) > >The high performace computing review mentions 512 CPU Alpha systems, and of >course, these systems cluster so you can basically create as many CPUs as you >want. Even thousands. The specifically mention a 4TF system. 4000GF or >4000000MF. Not bad. The Junior (upgrade test version-I presume) which they will be playing, how might it compare to deeper blue? If not on 8 proccessors, how many proccessoes would do it?
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