Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 06:20:59 07/02/02
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On July 01, 2002 at 22:56:25, Robert Henry Durrett wrote: >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. No. Dell was selling 8-way xeon SMP boxes last year. Which means you could buy one with up to 2 megs of L2 cache, if you don't mind paying about $4K per processor, in addition to the cost of the chassis/motherboard. I believe that the Intel Fusion chipset was supposed to support up to 16-way (four 4-way clusters of CPUS, shared memory, etc) although I don't see how to keep 16 processors fed due to memory bottlenecks. > >> >>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. That isn't necessarily true. My quad 700 was very close to the speed of Michel's dual AMD last year. Intel has gone beyond 700 on the xeons already. >> >>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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