Author: Pete Galati
Date: 18:35:13 05/17/00
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On May 17, 2000 at 20:19:56, Eugene Nalimov wrote: >On May 17, 2000 at 20:15:01, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>On May 17, 2000 at 18:20:38, Pete Galati wrote: >> >>>On May 17, 2000 at 18:03:46, Robert Hyatt wrote: >>> >>>>On May 17, 2000 at 15:33:13, Peter Hegger wrote: >>>> >>>>>Hello >>>>>Bob, I was wondering how many nps you will expect to hit when you get crafty up >>>>>and running on the Beowulf cluster. >>>>>Have you an approximate time frame when you think you may have the beast going? >>>>>Or, is that something that is unpredictable at this point? >>>>>Thanks, >>>>>Peter >>>> >>>> >>>>It is unpredictable. There are lots of things to do... but obviously it >>>>ought to hit 10M nodes per second. Whether that is 10x faster than my >>>>normal search on a single quad is very doubtful. But I don't think that >>>>hoping for 50% efficiency is out of line... which means an effective speed >>>>of 5M. And this is based on the current cluster. Another 8 quad xeons are >>>>due in this Summer, for a total of 18. That just might really hit 10M useful >>>>nodes per second. >>>> >>>>But lots of things are left to play with, like shared vs local transposition >>>>tables, carefully scheduling positions on nodes that have seen them before, >>>>etc... >>> >>>Just curiuous, have other programs used Beowulf clusters yet? >>> >>>Will someone with too much money in the future be able to buy a Beowulf cluster >>>and compile a BeoCrafty from the same source as the rest of us poor folks use >>>for our humble PCs? >>> >>>Pete >> >>Probably. I would hope that the beowulf version would work well on a two node >>machine (ie two PII/500's sitting side by side with a 100baseTx connection >>between them.) But once that is public, doing the same with 32 quad xeons >>will be just as easy, although I don't know how efficient it will be. > >It would be interesting to run it in our SQL lab :-) > >Eugene At MS? What's an SQL Lab? Is that a bunch of PCs connected through a server or something? You know, Bill Gates loves talking about computer Chess, maybe there's a way to make that happen. Pete
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