Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 09:21:40 06/30/02
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On June 29, 2002 at 13:00:51, Robert Henry Durrett wrote: >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. It won't be amusing, because all those pigs flying overhead are going to make a horrible mess on our cars. Porting from windows to unix is very non- trivial. xwindows has nothing in common with microsoft windows, except that they might "look" the same to an end-user. It would mean a total-rewrite of the GUI, which would be expensive and time-consuming. For no practical return on the investment. And with fritz being in asm, converting that to a unix assembler would be _another_ bit of fun.
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