Author: Vincent Diepeveen
Date: 08:24:53 04/19/02
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On April 19, 2002 at 02:20:45, Michael Williams wrote: >On April 18, 2002 at 21:46:43, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>On April 18, 2002 at 16:33:55, Martin Andersen wrote: >> >>>On April 18, 2002 at 16:10:02, Sally Weltrop wrote: >>> >>>>A Japanese machine records the fastest "floating point" calculation >>>>speed - over 35 trillion calculations per second. This is five times >>>>faster than the previous record holder, IBM's ASCI White system. >>>> >>>>http://www.processrequest.com/apps/redir.asp?link=XbddafaeBG >>> >>>I'm no expert, but I don't think chess programs use floating >>>point calculations. >>> >>>Martin >> >> >>Only because on PC machines, integer math is faster. If FP was faster, >>we'd all be using that. On some machines, it is faster.. > >Would you be so kind as to elaborate on this (fp)? >I'd really appreciate it, and I'm also pretty ignorant on such matters. >Thanks in advance. fp = floating point. to say it rude: 234 is integer 234.988001 is float see the point in it :) for business apps all you need is an old 386 with floating point processor (=fpu) for all kind of scientific bad written apps you can however use a big machine and run the approximation software faster if there is more cpu power. www.top500.org how bad written software makes clusters seem fast. no clue what i could do with 10000 processors 375mhz power3, though it would be fun to toy with. only costs american taxpayer a billion or so (more i guess), in europe we waste it on art... ...its a choice
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