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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