Author: Robert Henry Durrett
Date: 19:56:25 07/01/02
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On July 01, 2002 at 22:37:16, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: >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. At rgcc, Bob Hyatt said you can get one for $80,000. He seemed to have one in mind! I'm almost ready to purchase it! The only thing holding me back is not knowing the sizes of the caches. I like BIG caches. Could I have misunderstood what Hyatt said? Bob D. > >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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