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Subject: Re: The best Machine to run your chess engine!! -- Add the Cray

Author: pavel

Date: 07:36:37 11/08/00

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On November 08, 2000 at 09:06:56, walter irvin wrote:

>On November 08, 2000 at 02:54:29, Gregor Overney wrote:
>
>>On November 07, 2000 at 23:57:47, pavel wrote:
>>
>>>which one would you go for?
>>>
>>>1) 1000mhz Dual Alpha UP2000 or 21264DP
>>>
>>>2) 1000mhz Pentium III or Quad Xeon
>>>
>>>3) 1000mhz AMD Athlon
>>>
>>>4) Beowulf Cluster
>>>   (Distributed memory parallel processing)
>>>
>>>
>>>pavs. ;)
>>
>>
>>If I had the choice, I would seriously consider a Cray T932. 900GB/sec peak
>>memory bandwidth and 32 well-designed CPU's are just running loops around many
>>multiprocessor machines when running real-world applications. (See
>>http://www.cray.com/products/systems/crayt90/932.html)
>>
>>Gregor
>
>i did not see a price tag on that beast .wonder how much it actually cost????

actually I suggested the ones those are more or less affordable,
cray machine is far too expensive,
if we could add cray we could use hardwares of the super computers used by army
intelligence, or even deep blue.

but that is something beyond average people's reach ;)

Pavs.



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