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

Author: Vincent Lejeune

Date: 08:17:40 06/25/02

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On June 25, 2002 at 09:07:27, Vincent Lejeune wrote:

>On June 25, 2002 at 08:56:04, Adam Oellermann wrote:
>
>>On June 25, 2002 at 07:54:35, Vincent Lejeune wrote:
>>
>>>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 ?
>>
>>Surely the differences in the architecture/purpose between a 64-bit SMP Unix box
>>and a Cray must fill any honest comparison with weasel words. I am sure there
>>are some things which the Cray would do much faster; some the big IBM boxes
>>could probably compete. I would ***guess*** that the Cray would run Cray Blitz
>>faster, but a 32x1.4GHz Power4 would run Crafty faster; Cray Blitz taking
>>advantage of unusual features of the Cray, with Crafty being more suited for
>>"general-purpose" computers.
>>
>>Disclaimer: I've never even seen a Cray up close, and therefore defer to just
>>about anyone who might have an opinion on this :)
>
>My question was a bit unclear, I just would to know the comparison, in
>Nodes/secondes between  "CrayBlitz on cray" and "Crafty on such machine" :)

Some SPEC of the beast :
http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/eserver/pseries/hardware/datactr/p690_specs.html
http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/eserver/pseries/news/pressreleases/2001/oct/annc_104.html



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