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Subject: Re: Would This Configuration Work?

Author: José de Jesús García Ruvalcaba

Date: 03:57:18 05/31/02

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On May 30, 2002 at 16:38:35, Robert Henry Durrett wrote:

>On May 30, 2002 at 13:03:01, José de Jesús García Ruvalcaba wrote:
>
>>About what you propose:
>>1. It would work.
>
>Encouraging.
>
>>2. It would be somewhat inefficient.
>
>Yes.
>
>>3. Something better is going to play against Kramnik.
>
>Now you've got me interested!  What do you suppose they might use against
>Kramnik?   Everybody would like to hear this answer!
>

An 8-processor machine with shared memory. That allows the eigth processors to
share the transposition tables without wsating too much time and reduces
significantly the amount of duplicated work (when compared to your proposal).

>Note:  An 8-processor computer is not going to be very impressive if the
>processors are slow.  The whole idea of the configuration I was asking about was
>to get around the slowness of the processors.  Each of the eight "computers" in
>the proposed "COMPUTER" could be VERY fast.

And it takes a huge amount of work from the programmers. I do not doubt that
Frans Morsch can do it, but I have not heard he is working on that.
José.

> Indeed, they could each be the
>fastest dual Xeon computers available.
>
>Bob D.
>
>
>>José.



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