Author: pavel
Date: 07:37:22 06/18/02
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On June 18, 2002 at 09:51:04, Chris Carson wrote: >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), hmm interesting... ;) 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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