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

Author: Vincent Diepeveen

Date: 10:26:17 06/29/02

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On June 29, 2002 at 12:57:35, Robert Henry Durrett wrote:

>On June 29, 2002 at 10:54:09, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:
>
>>On June 29, 2002 at 10:49:55, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:
>>
>>>On June 29, 2002 at 10:31:21, Robert Henry Durrett wrote:
>>>
>>>even worse, they will even manage within a year to run on a supercomputer,
>>                       not even manage obviously.
>>>simply because fritz is written in assembly.
>>
>>rewriting a pc assembly program to a cc-NUMA supercomputer is not easy.
>
>Who's afraid of a little work?  Many people like challenges.

Bob, commercial programmers are afraid of such work as it doesn't pay
a penny for them. Also the next open hardware world champs is in 2005 or so.

>Bob D.
>
>>
>>
>>>>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.



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