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Subject: Re: Vincent, will you comment on Diep hardware for Maastricht

Author: Robert Henry Durrett

Date: 10:00:51 06/29/02

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On June 29, 2002 at 10:50:30, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:

>On June 29, 2002 at 10:44:28, Chris Hull wrote:
>
>>On June 29, 2002 at 10:31:21, Robert Henry Durrett wrote:
>>
>>>On June 28, 2002 at 23:26:47, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>>>
>>>>On June 28, 2002 at 20:33:04, Robert Henry Durrett wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>On June 28, 2002 at 20:25:18, K. Burcham wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>http://www.sara.nl/hpc.www/teras/description/
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Chessbase is saying this:
>>>>>>DIEP is expected to run on a 1024-CPU TERAS system. This machine consists of 45
>>>>>>racks and has a peak performance of 1 TeraFlops (10^12 floating point
>>>>>>operations) per second.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>First of all, is this the system Diep will be running on in tournament?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>If so, what kns do you expect? What is the total mhz you will actually
>>>>>>be using in this system?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>kburcham
>>>>>
>>>>>That's the one they should use for the Kramnik - Fritz match in October!
>>>>>
>>>>>Bob D.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>Impossible.  It is unix, not windows.
>>>
>>>Wait a minute!  Are you "really" saying that "the Fritz people" are incapable of
>>>making a UNIX version of Fritz?  Are you saying the're incompetent?
>>>
>>>Bob D.
>>
>>No, what I think Bob H. is saying is that there is no unix version of Fritz.
>>
>>And it takes more than a simple recompilation to move a window program to a
>>1024-cpu unix supercomputer.
>>
>>Chris
>
>I would use the word impossible forever with regard to Fritz.

You guys just have no faith in those brilliant "Fritz guys."  Surely they would
not balk at doing more than a simple recompilation.  It'll be very amusing when
the computer for the Kramnik vs Fritz match comes out in UNIX!  :)

Bob D.




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