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

Author: Jeremiah Penery

Date: 10:22:31 09/07/01

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On September 07, 2001 at 09:51:29, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>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...

I know for sure then that the 16-CPU machines can be used, and they are SMP. :)
It was difficult from their webpages to tell whether the 32-CPU version was true
SMP or not.



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