Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 06:43:52 09/04/01
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On September 03, 2001 at 22:42:08, Bruce Moreland wrote: >On September 03, 2001 at 19:54:40, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: > >>On September 03, 2001 at 18:50:24, Joshua Lee wrote: >> >>>I am not going to say Uri is right or wrong for doing this as it is none of my >>>business but i will say that i would'nt do this for one good reason i am maybe >>>Class A Strength and i could get a 512 processor DEC Alpha or a Cray and Put a >>>chess program on it and everybody else in the world would be extreemly lucky if >>>they would even draw a game. >> >>Ah you would lose chanceless from Uri, because your Cray is not going >>to run a single program, and as we know the b.f. from Cray blitz wasn't >>that well and it was a 1984 program or whatever. >> >>Also i can't remember any program except DIEP and crafty running on >>alpha's but neither of them runs on a 512 processor cluster. > >You are forgetting a few, like my program and Dark Thought. > >If you are all C, and you use MSVC, you can run on an Alpha in about five >minutes work. > >I know this is true because I watched Stefan port Shredder to Alpha (my Alpha) >the day before the 1997 WMCCC. > >bruce Yes... but not a big parallel alpha machine. They are a form of message-passing machines, and the usual SMP stuff doesn't port at all. They have a compiler (UPC) that will do some normal SMP stuff through message passing, but my program certainly won't run on the big alpha clusters at the moment...
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