Author: Robert Henry Durrett
Date: 11:51:14 06/21/02
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On June 21, 2002 at 14:36:13, Dann Corbit wrote: >On June 21, 2002 at 08:30:45, Robert Henry Durrett wrote: > >> >>Soon, maybe next Spring, Intel and AMD will have their advanced 64-bit >>microprocessors out and, hopefully, they will be well-suited for Quad Crafty >>chess engines. Will AMD be the winner in this "Crafty Competition"? > >Doubt it. The fastest crafty on SMP will be one with really big on-die cache. >If the Hammer line makes something with huge cache like the Intel Xeon, then it >might be competitive. Eugene's benchmark of a 2 CPU AMD system showed a 40% >gain for the second CPU. 60% loss is a bit disappointing. > >With the Xeon that Bob uses, there is a very tiny SMP loss of only a few >percent. Will Itaniums also have this "huge cache" advantage over hammers? Especially interested in Madison Itaniums compared to equivalent Hammers. Is there a 64-bit Xeon? I thought they were all 32-bit. [Note: Would be misleading to compare 3rd generation of one processor to 1st generation of the other. Need to consider what each, Intel & AMD, will have out at the same time.] Bob D.
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