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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