Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 19:54:07 02/06/02
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On February 06, 2002 at 19:32:39, ALI MIRAFZALI wrote: >On February 06, 2002 at 19:28:21, Frank Nelson wrote: > >>On February 06, 2002 at 17:48:52, walter irvin wrote: >> >>>i wonder if a 2ghz pc with the latest crafty beat the cray blitz that won the >>>world champoinship ?????????? >>> >>>my vote is with crafty >> >>You are forgetting that cray blitz was runned on a supercomputer at many >>m.i.p.s. than that which a home pc can acheive. So my bets are with cray blitz! >Actually your last Statementis not True.A 2 gig Home PC has more m.i.p.s then >the old Supercomputers which ran Cray Blitz. MIPS are irrelevant. A single instruction on the Cray could operate on a long series of things, like a chess board. And the first Cray built had at _least_ ten times the memory bandwidth of the fastest PC built today. 1983 crays could beat todays best PC by a factor of 1000 in moving stuff thru memory... there is more to it than meets the eye...
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