Author: Bernhard Bauer
Date: 11:47:09 05/08/02
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On May 08, 2002 at 11:23:12, Dan Andersson wrote: >The clock speed will increase on this CPU. And th IPC also. And the memory >access will be outstanding. And there will be a really impressive NUMA >architacture. And NUMA is the big brother of SMP. Or rather SMP is the deformed >mutated less than viable simile of NUMA. And it will feature full SIMD >compatability with theintel extensions. And it will run existing code faster. >And, and, and ... In short, it seems to be way superior to anything ever seen >before on the x86 scene. It's a beautiful idea of an chip and I am confident >that AMD will be able to deliver the silicon. This architecture will severely >disadvantage the current Intel chips. Lets hear it for healthy competition. > >MvH Dan Andersson I mostly agree. My question is: Will existent SMP code run on a 8 proc opteron 8 times faster? Or do you need a separate hash table for each proc? Up to now I don't know of a NUMA chess program. regards Bernhard
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