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Subject: Re: Refuting nonsense about 64 bits servers/supercomputer chips

Author: Francesco Di Tolla

Date: 13:12:52 09/05/01

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On September 04, 2001 at 08:32:01, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>Those assumptions are not necessarily valid.  IE Cray Blitz used vectors
>quite efficiently.  In move generation.  In attack detection.  In the
>evaluation.  It only requires that vectors be included in the design
>process...
>
>If you use them, then a vector machine can scream right along on chess
>problems.  We did...

Vectorial machine usually have separate pipelines for floating point and
integers. Do you mean you used the flaoting point pipeline?

ciao
Franz



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