Author: Francesco Di Tolla
Date: 03:32:18 09/04/01
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>Rank Manufacturer (GFlops) Processors > >1. IBM ASCI White,SP Power3 375 MHz [7226.00] [8192] >2. IBM SP Power3 375 MHz 16 way [2526.00] [2528] >3. Intel ASCI Red [2379.00] [9632] >4. IBM ASCI Blue-Pacific [2144.00] [5808] > >11. Cray Inc. T3E1200 [1127.00] [1900] > >439. Presto III Athlon 1.333 GHz [77.40] [78] > >Interesting is of course the AMD which gets almost 1 GFlop per processor where >the Cray by far does not get 1 GFlop per processor. Bottom line: isn't your >beloved Cray out-performed by nowadays micro processors available from your >local super market? > Well, this is a measure of the efficency of the pipline of the floating point operations on the CPU and of the bandwidth/efficency of the bus connecting the CPU. It has very little to do with chess. Of course a high bandwith is good for a parallel chess program, but the performance on integers in non vectorial calculcations is the number that matters for chess. ciao Franz
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