Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 06:51:29 09/07/01
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On September 07, 2001 at 04:24:24, Jeremiah Penery wrote: >On September 07, 2001 at 01:23:35, Joshua Lee wrote: > >>Recently in a response to my post about TYPP test set i was saying that someone >>can get a faster computer and that's not what Correspondence is about etc blah >>blah >> >>Well i mentioned the DEC Alpha with 512 Cpu's >>but apparently crafty and other programs will not work on this. >>What is the fastest system for Ferret or Crafty or any onther program that can >>be run on these unix type systems? >> >>What about Dual booting Something like this ? Deep Fritz only uses 8 cpu's what >>about other "Deep Programs"? What is the Ecentric Wealthy Chessplayers options >>here? What about the Quad 800Mhz Itanium ? >> >>Thankyou > >You could use a 32-CPU Alpha 21264C (1001 MHz/processor) machine. For Crafty, >this would probably run at some 30-40M NPS (about 30-40x faster than Bob's 4x700 >Xeon or a 2x1200 AMD machine). From what I can tell by looking at the product >specifications, these should be normal SMP machines, unlike the Alpha machines >with up to 512 CPUs, which are message-passing cluster machines. They are not quite SMP machines. The crossbar switch they use requires some programming changes...
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