Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 17:18:31 06/17/02
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On June 17, 2002 at 20:13:26, Robert Henry Durrett wrote: > >I recently contacted Chessbase [info@chessbase.com] and received an email >response saying that they will soon provide the information I requested, and >more, about the computer. It will appear on their Chessbase News webpage. > >In the meantime, it's not too late to speculate! > >While discussing the computer [for the Kramnik match] with my son, who is here >at my house for a visit, he noted that "there are plenty of 64-bit 64-processor >computers running under UNIX." When pressed for details, he could not give me >any because he does not use such "beasts" in his job. Maybe someone here is >more familiar with this? > >The commercial version of Fritz runs on PCs that have Windows operating systems >simply because the customers want to put Fritz on their home PCs, which run >under Windows. > >But is there any reason, or LAW, that says that the computer they will use for >the Kramnik match cannot run under UNIX? > >Essentially the same situation applies for word length. The Fritz customers >have 32-bit computers, so Fritz is designed to run on those 32-bit computers. > >But is there any reason, or LAW, that says that the computer they will use for >the Kramnik match cannot be a 64-bit computer? i.e. have a 64-bit deep fritz >running under UNIX? > >If so, do any of the "UNIX-types" here at ICD/CCC know how fast the processors >could be in that case? Which processors would they use? > >What do you think? Is an 8-processor 64-bit computer running under UNIX a >possibility for the Deep Fritz versus Kramnik October 2002 match? Not a snowflake's chance in the proverbial place of eternal punishment. The whole purpose of the match is to sell computer chess programs. The ChessBase company wants to recoup some of the zillion dollars they are putting on the line, and I certainly do not blame them. This is not a pure scientific experiment with a desire to find out facts. It is a way to make money. Now, nobody is going to buy 64 bit Fritz for Linux. OK, maybe one in a million of the sales they would have for Win32. Can anyone seriously imagine that they would run it on anything except a Win32 platform? Now, they might get an 8 CPU 64 bit version of Windows and use that. Most Win32 users will have no clue that that system is a trillion miles from theirs and they can still use the performance to drive sales.
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