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Subject: Re: 272 CPU's monster from Compaq

Author: Robin Smith

Date: 13:26:50 03/23/02

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On March 23, 2002 at 11:53:34, Joshua Lee wrote:

>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.

A dual Athlon MP will be much more than twice the speed of your setup, at a much
lower cost than a 4 or 8 way Pentium4.



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