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Subject: Re: Itanium Processor tm, Will it Power Chess Software Better Than I A-32?

Author: Terry McCracken

Date: 06:50:18 06/21/01

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On June 21, 2001 at 00:29:16, Brian Richardson wrote:

>It will depend upon the program.  Keep an eye on the SPEC CINT2000 benchmark,
>which includes Crafty as one of the benchmark workloads.  This will give you the
>exact results for Crafty.  However, do not confuse the Itanium Processor Family
>(IPF--aka processors using IA-64 architecture) with just the initial Itanium
>implementation (aka Merced).  The second generation (McKinley) should have much
>stronger performance.

Thanks for the reply!

I will be keeping an eye on the Itanium tm, from what I've heard the (McKinley)
will be twice as fast!

Regards,
 Terry



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