Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 19:41:22 12/08/00
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On December 08, 2000 at 22:36:44, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On December 08, 2000 at 22:26:31, Dann Corbit wrote: > >>On December 08, 2000 at 22:04:25, John Dahlem wrote: >> >>>ok Randy, is this the (current) ultimate chess PC? >>>http://www.zdnet.com/supercenter/stories/review/0,12070,437926,00.html >> >>Not even close. This is: >>http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/eserver/pseries/ >> >>But it needs a series of chips that are ahh... Discontinued. >> >>So I would settle for this: >>http://www5.compaq.com/AlphaServer/sc/sc_prod_profile.html > > >Two good machines. Problem is that you need two things: (1) a chess engine >with source code so you can compile it for those architectures.... neither is >a PC-compatible (X86) architecture although the alpha has a facility to execute >X86 in an emulated mode; (2) a parallel engine to take advantage of all those >processors... Commercial: Hard to come by. Vincent D. or Amir B. might do a compile just for the heck of it. Open Source: Crafty. Not a problems. I would feel fairly confident matching crafty on a 32 CPU fully loaded SC from Compaq against anything else in the world that is currenly available. Not that I'm ready to pop for the dough. But (just because I am curious) I checked how much it would cost. Loaded to the gills with ram, software, disk, and CPU's we're still well under ten million dollars. I wonder how the latest crays stack up against those Compaq beasties.
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