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Subject: Re: OT: Affordable new 64-bit Power4 boxen from IBM

Author: Vincent Lejeune

Date: 04:54:35 06/25/02

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On June 25, 2002 at 05:09:04, Adam Oellermann wrote:

...
>As I understand it, the Power4 blows the doors off Itanium2 for integer
>performance. So a dual for approx $20000 and a quad for approx $30000 would
>represent an *immense* amount of chess for your money. Me, I'd love to see
>Crafty on one of these guys clean up ICC... Of course, while it's dreamtime, IBM
>have 32-way boxes with 1.4GHz Power4 CPUs
>
>Cheers
>Adam

Bob, would you compare the speed of such computer and the one who run Cray
Blitz, please ?



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