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Subject: Re: 272 CPU's monster from Compaq

Author: Joshua Lee

Date: 08:53:34 03/23/02

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On March 23, 2002 at 06:21:36, Torstein Hall wrote:

>On March 23, 2002 at 00:45:36, Slater Wold wrote:
>
>>On March 23, 2002 at 00:34:37, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>>
>>>On March 22, 2002 at 12:26:34, Slater Wold wrote:
>>>
>>>>On March 22, 2002 at 11:07:36, Yar wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>On March 22, 2002 at 11:06:30, Yar wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>Have a look of performance of this 272 CPU's monster:
>>>>>>http://www.tpc.org/tpcc/results/tpcc_result_detail.asp?id=101091903
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Probably chessbase should use this server against Kramnik
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Just a joke
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Have a nice weekend,
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Yar
>>>>>
>>>>>Forgot to mention that this is odinary 900 XEON III CPU's
>>>>
>>>>Also forgot to mention it's $10M.  ;)
>>>
>>>
>>>also it is not classic SMP.
>>
>>Yup, it's a cluster.  Which suck for chess.
>
>Who cares. I take any day! :-)
>
>Torstein

Also that it wouldn't work with NT or Win2000 so unless Chessbase uses something
other than Fritz or does some major re-programming.

A 4-8cpu Pentium4 , which is available is the best at 1.6Ghz that's like sitting
my home computer (1Ghz Athlon Thunderbird 200Mhz 512MB, 256MB for Hash Tables)
up for 30minutes to equal it's 3minute tournament move. Posiibly more because i
don't know how all the extra Memory + Bandwidth would play a part.

I'm impressed by the new system as it is the only thing twice as fast without
overclocking than my computer , unless a 2Ghz Pentium4 is twice as fast but from
posted Fritzmark scores that doesn't seem to be the case.



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