Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 21:39:05 05/11/00
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On May 12, 2000 at 00:28:50, stuart taylor wrote: >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? Apples to oranges. Deeper Blue was a hardware behemoth. Deep Junior on a multiple CPU machine is a software leviathon. Don't tangle with either one, or blood will be running out of your ears. >If not on 8 proccessors, how many proccessoes >would do it? There is no way to compare. The algorithms were different. The hardware capability is different by orders of magnitude. The only way to know how comparable they might be is to play a few hundred games between them. Don't hold your breath for that to happen.
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