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Subject: Re: Which is faster Quad xeon or dual pIII933

Author: David Wilke

Date: 14:12:35 02/21/01

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On February 21, 2001 at 16:15:33, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On February 21, 2001 at 14:08:25, Uri Blass wrote:
>
>>I ask the question because I am interested to know which program has hardware
>>advantage(Diep or the other parallel programs).
>>
>>Uri
>
>
>Math goes like this:  my quad xeon is 4 X 700mhz, a total of 2800 megahertz.
>Typically a program loses 30% of each processor after the first, which means
>that the efficiency is 3.1 X 700 roughly.  For the dual 933, the efficiency
>is going to be about 1.7 X 933.  So the dual is a bit out-gunned, but not by
>a huge margin.

Is this the machine that Crafty and Scrappy are now using?

I believe in the finger notes that they are still state to be Quad 550's.



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