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Subject: Re: What is the Fastest Hardware that Crafty and other's Can run on?

Author: Wayne Lowrance

Date: 08:37:29 09/07/01

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On September 07, 2001 at 09:49:47, Robert Hyatt 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
>
>
>I can only speak for Crafty.  It can run on any platform that is SMP.  It
>won't (currently) run on message passing architectures like the cluster of
>alphas you mentioned.  The largest number of processors I have tested with
>was 32.  But there is no real limit in that regard, just so the machine is
>based on shared memory and not message passing.

Bob can you  tell me the performance difference (a guess if u have to) with 32
processors ?
thx
Wayne



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