Author: Chris Carson
Date: 06:51:04 06/18/02
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The last time I checked, chessbase said that DFritz on the 8-way box would search an average of 6M nodes/sec. That sounds like an 8x1.5GHZ Win/Tel box. I really wonder how much stronger the 8x box will be than a single proc at the end of this year (Intel usually releases in Nov and Jan). Today we can get a 2.5GHZ Intel (or 2200+ AMD). Fritz on the fastest single box gets 2M+ Nodes/sec (perhaps 2.25M nodes/sex), by the end of this year it will most likely get 3M+ nodes on the fastest single Intel or AMD box. That means the 8x box will be just a factor of 2x faster than the top of the line single proc box. The 8x box may be only 70 ELO points stronger than the single proc box for chess programs. By the end of next year, we can buy a single proc Win/Tel box for $799 US that will out perform the 8x for this match, add the price of Fritz/Junior/Tiger/Hiarcs/Rebel and for about $1,000 US you can play 5 super GM's.
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