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Subject: Re: top 500 computer list in (GFlops)

Author: Angrim

Date: 23:53:17 11/11/01

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On November 11, 2001 at 22:00:00, K. Burcham wrote:

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>http://www.top500.org/list/2001/11/
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>i could not find robert or slates computer on this list.

I assume this is a joke? no 4 cpu machine is going to make
the top-5000 list even.

>anyone know how to convert kns to GFlops.

There is no conversion formula, GFlop is billions of floating point
operations per second, and most chess programs do not use
floating point for their search code.  So more Gflops does not always
mean more knps.

>kburcham

Angrim

• Re: top 500 computer list in (GFlops) Joshua Lee 13:57:08 11/12/01
  • Re: top 500 computer list in (GFlops) Vincent Diepeveen 15:57:25 11/12/01
    • Re: top 500 computer list in (GFlops) Sune Fischer 02:47:25 11/13/01

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