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Subject: Re: What are the different Hardwares participating in the WMCCC ?

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 06:21:39 08/18/00

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On August 18, 2000 at 00:16:04, Peter Kappler wrote:

>On August 17, 2000 at 21:59:37, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>>On August 17, 2000 at 17:22:18, Jorge Pichard wrote:
>>
>>>We only know about Dr Hyatt computer since he annouces it 5 days ago. But why
>>>Chessbase does not announces what hardwares they will be using and the same for
>>>other with good possibility of winning such as Chess Tiger 12.9 and Shredder 5.
>>>They need to bring the best hardware possible that can match Dr Hyatt Alpha
>>>system, since Crafty has proven to be playing a la par with the very best
>>>ptrograms using comparable hardwares.
>>>
>>>Pichard.
>>
>>
>>I don't think our alpha is going to turn out to be very fast.  I think we
>>will be doing maybe 400K nodes per second.  A shame, but there was little time
>>to try to get a "real good alpha"...
>>
>>It will still 'play chess' of course. :)
>
>
>
>What kind of Alpha are you getting, and what would you have considered a "real
>good alpha"?.
>
>--Peter

The 21264A running at 667mhz or faster would be a "good alpha".  The 21264 at
500 is an "OK alpha".  IE we aren't going to be hurting at all, but we could
run probably twice as fast.



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