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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