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Subject: Re: Best Motherboard and CPU for chess computer?

Author: Vincent Diepeveen

Date: 04:28:05 01/07/02

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On January 06, 2002 at 16:56:59, Joshua Lee wrote:

>I think i'd rather have the pSeries 690 or a Fijitzu Seimens .....
>
>http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/eserver/pseries/hardware/datactr/p690.html
>
>with a 32 way 1.3 Power 4  which is like a Athlon clocked at 2.95Ghz
>so maybe 66.9Ghz  but when more programs for clusters come out then the sky is
>the limit  the #1 on the top 500 is a 8,192 x375Mhz  Cluster or 3Thz .

First of all no one gets system time on clusters. Secondly when is
going to get a program released for a cluster, any date in mind.

16 octobre 2073?

> When you think about it if Deep Blue was more like Hiarcs as far as how many
>nodes it would get if it were on a PC  it was 7 levels (ply ) (2.187Thz) or if
>it is more like Fritz   5 Ply (243Ghz)  Maybe someone with better details could
>say how fast processor wise DB was.

480 processors of different types (with different evaluations and
searches i assume too) clocked somewhere between 20 and 33Mhz.

>at 2 million i think i'm gonna have to wait
>untill i retire before i can get one

fastest platform for computerchess is a dual K7 mainboard with fast MP
processors. That's 500 times cheaper.




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