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Subject: Re: Hammer info. And som SMP musings.

Author: Tom Kerrigan

Date: 12:58:19 03/23/02

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On March 23, 2002 at 09:53:13, Dan Andersson wrote:

>As seen in:
>http://www.aceshardware.com/read.jsp?id=45000312
>A chess program using traditional work scheduling algorithms will not be using
>the Hammer architecture at its most effective. But it won't be all that bad due
>to the HyperTransport tunnels. And high bandwidth memory. A funny consequence of
>the architecture is that SMP multiprocessing is achieved by having software
>drivers.

I don't know what you mean by "traditional work scheduling algorithms" but the
Hammer will be great for running chess programs out of the box. The only way to
make it faster would be to recompile the programs for x86-64, which reportedly
yields a 10-15% performance gain.

-Tom

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