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

Author: Vincent Diepeveen

Date: 15:57:25 11/12/01

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On November 12, 2001 at 16:57:08, Joshua Lee wrote:

>Are there ANY chess Programs that do Use Floating Point Operations?

I don't think so or it must have been a neural network program :)

Working with floating point is dead slow on PC's. The whole top500 list
is partly a big joke because most are clusters from which not even
in theoretic cases it's possible to use all nodes at the same time
for a single program!

Not to mention the fact that for nearly any application on earth, clusters
are slower than the same number of cpu's in a shared memory environment.

Best regards,
Vincent



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