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

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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