Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 09:57:29 01/19/01
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On January 19, 2001 at 09:13:57, David Wilke wrote: >It has been stated by Robert many times that Crafty is blazing fast on an Alpha >processor. > >If this is the case, why wouldn't he use Alphas to run Crafty on the chess >servers instead of the big gun Xeons? price. I bought my quad xeon for less than you would pay for a good single-cpu 21264-based alpha. > >What would be the actual cost of a Quad processor Alpha machine? No real idea but definitely not cheap. > >And how much faster would Crafty be on that hardware? It should be able to hit 1M nodes per sec on a single-cpu machine (21264 or better). multiply that by the number of processors you can afford, up to at least 20 (which they build).
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