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Subject: Re: They are coming ... amd is creating them ...

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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