Author: Slater Wold
Date: 11:39:22 08/13/02
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On August 13, 2002 at 14:10:11, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On August 13, 2002 at 12:36:21, Slater Wold wrote: > >>On August 13, 2002 at 12:34:09, Slater Wold wrote: >> >>>On August 13, 2002 at 12:00:18, Chris Carson wrote: >>> >>>>I do not know what HW will be used, but I am interested on opinions and guesses. >>>> >>>>I think each will need at least 8x1Ghz to have a chance. Is 8x1Ghz the most >>>>likely? 4x1Ghz will be to slow, not much better (if at all) than a fast single >>>>proc for chess programs. >>>> >>>>Opinions? What is the fastest HW out there for Intel or AMD? >>>> >>>>Chris >>> >>>There is no 8x1Ghz. The fastest 8-way you can get is an 8x900mhz. >> >>BTW - A Dell 8x900mhz computer, pretty much bare, will run you about $50k. > > >Correct... And it isn't significantly faster than a quad 4x900 either. Not >even 1.5X faster, and that doesn't count the fact that deep fritz doesn't seem >to get particularly good speedups on multiple-cpu machines, based on the >test results you have posted here in the past... Deep Junior gets a pretty decent speedup. 1.7x - 1.8x or so on my dual. Deep Fritz gets almost no speed up at all, however Frans has stated that this has been fixed. I know for *fact* that a 4x900 gets around 1.6M nps on Crafty 18.14. That is still slower than my 2x1.73Ghz, which gets 1.83M nps. There is no way in my mind, that an 8-way makes sense. But they sure sound cool.
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