Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 11:54:01 11/12/01
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On November 12, 2001 at 14:30:44, Olaf Jenkner wrote: >>A dual or quad intel box will _not_ be on this list. However, this list >>has become pretty meaningless as it includes large "clusters" that are not >>very easy to use to many calculations. In the old days, machines like Cray, >>Hitachi, IBM and Fujitsu dominated this list. Now it is dominated by >>clusters. That generally can't touch the supercomputers except for very >>specific applications. > >Is it possible to use clusters for calculation of endgame tablebases? In two ways: 1. Completely rewrite the tablebase generation code 2. Run a separate instance on each node (all doing a different tablebase). In other words -- Not really.
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