Author: leonid
Date: 08:41:30 01/20/01
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On January 19, 2001 at 18:19:51, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: >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? >> >>What would be the actual cost of a Quad processor Alpha machine? >> >>And how much faster would Crafty be on that hardware? > >Recently (november) a dual mainboard came out for alpha at 866Mhz. >Around 2500us$ ONLY for the motherboard. >And correct me if i'm wrong, but it doesn't give a hardware 2.0 speedup. > >A cool MSI dual 694d motherboard allows processors (PIII fcpga) at >like 1Ghz or above. It's $200 at most. > >So it's realistic to say alpha's are about 10 times pricier. > >A 16 processor alpha recently sold for 8.5 million dollar. >I forgot the speed of the alpha's on that system. somewhere between 450 >and 600 Mhz i think. > >Also it's not realistic to assume that we'll see alpha's in the stores >breaking the 1 Ghz barrier in dual motherboards. > >If a dual alpha 21264 would be not too expensive i might just for >fun buy one, but just $2500 for the motherboard to start with is >not exactly big fun. > >That's out of my price range for sure. The 866Mhz speed i don't >even complain about as it's not realistic to expect any production >64 bits machine with so many registers like the alpha has to >get over 1 Ghz. And how many registers have Alpha? >It's more realistic to say that it might take 2 years before we >see that. AMDs will be running probably dual then at 2 Ghz for >less as 1/10 of alpha prices.
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