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

Author: J. Wesley Cleveland

Date: 14:28:48 06/25/02

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On June 25, 2002 at 17:12:31, Robert Hyatt 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 ?
>
>
>I don't know much about the power4 speeds yet.  The Cray T932 is very fast,
>but it gets much of its speed from vector processing, which is something we
>spent a _lot_ of time on in Cray Blitz.  Crafty on a T932 is not impressively
>fast although it is not slow.
>
>If the PPC4 is faster than itanium2, then it will be very fast indeed, since
>a 1Ghz I2 seems to run near 1.5M nodes per second for Crafty...

A single processor PPC4 gets a spec2000 rating of 842 on crafty. Not bad ;)
http://www.spec.org/osg/cpu2000/results/res2002q2/cpu2000-20020422-01307.html




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