Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 09:53:58 08/08/00
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On August 08, 2000 at 09:26:57, pavel wrote: >On August 08, 2000 at 09:06:17, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>On August 08, 2000 at 00:44:15, James Robertson wrote: >> >>>On August 07, 2000 at 23:50:01, Robert Hyatt wrote: >>> >>>>On August 07, 2000 at 23:29:23, Peter Skinner wrote: >>>> >>>>>>Graham has been busy and has lined up an alpha from Compaq... but a real >>>>>>alpha and not a PC-alpha... >>>>>> >>>>>>more after I check out the model number, etc. >>>>> >>>>>I believe that the rules state it must be a processor that can be readily >>>>>available to the public.. >>>>> >>>>>How available are these alphas? >>>> >>>>Simply call Compaq and tell them you want to buy an XP1000 workstation. They >>>>will happily ship you one _right now_. About the same size as a PC in a mid- >>>>size tower case. >>> >>>How much do they cost? Are they 64-bit machines? >>> >>>James >>> >> >> >> >>All alphas are 64 bit processors. A guess would put them in the $10,000 >>(US) price range. >> >>They are the hottest things around, at present. > >its great , you finally got someone to run crafty on the tourny. >and its on one hell of a machine. >though I am more interested in which version of crafty you are planning to run, >also what kinda opening book (the one available to public?), and what TBs? >how much nps are you especting on this "beast" ? > >thanks and good luck >pavel > I will use the most current version, which is (at present) 17.13... I am not yet decided about opening books, but probably the one I use on ICC, but with some tweaks. It will have all the 3-4-5 piece tablebases for sure... and I would guess at something around 1M nodes per second or so... I will know more once we test. > > > >> >> >> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>> >>>>>I will email the person in charge to clarify this, because the way I understand >>>>>it, the computers used must be of the commercial variaty, being an Intel, or AMD >>>>>machine.. >>>> >>>>Nope.. David was originally going to make it "uniform platform" but that >>>>fell through. The rules have _always_ been a single-cpu commercially available >>>>microprocessor. A couple of years ago some of the participants had Kryo-ed >>>>alphas. Crafty ran on a 21164 in Paris. >>>> >>>> >>>>> >>>>>I of course could be very wrong.
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