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Subject: Re: Optimizing Deep Fritz for Larger Computers

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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