Author: Vincent Diepeveen
Date: 19:37:16 07/01/02
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On July 01, 2002 at 21:34:59, Robert Henry Durrett wrote: Sorry i don't believe fritz can run on 8 processor box machine. there are no shared memory 8 processor box machines simply. the machine you mention it ran on 4 processors. the other 4 processors are from a different quad. in fact the intel 8 processor Xeon machines are 2 quads which are stuck together with glue. Like you can glue together 2 K7 mainboards and sell it as a quad. So you run dual on that k7 dual then. You run quad on that 8 way Xeon. Note that a dual K7 is hell faster than a quad xeon. P4 doesn't run quad very well. Too buggy. Will take quite some time before we see p4 getting quad. Best regards, Vincent > > >Surely, no one would seriously consider trying to optimize Fritz to run on >computers larger than single-processor PCs. That's what it's made to run on. > >Deep Fritz, on the other hand, is to be run on an 8-processor "box" [presumably >a "PC"] in October. Perhaps re-coding Deep Fritz to make it run on an $80,000 >8-processor SMP non-PC "box" would be a relatively trivial task for Morsh and >his CB8 friends? > >Not so sure about making Deep Fritz run on a $1,000,000 computer. That may be a >bigger [and pointless] task. > >Agree? > >Bob D.
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