Author: Sune Fischer
Date: 14:07:53 03/23/02
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On March 23, 2002 at 15:58:19, Tom Kerrigan wrote: >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. The Hammer is a 64-bit chip, I expect it to bring a lot more than just 10-15% in chess, more like 100-150% for those progs with bitboards. -S. >-Tom
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