Author: Vincent Diepeveen
Date: 09:11:07 08/23/02
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On August 22, 2002 at 15:17:55, Rajen Gupta wrote: >On August 22, 2002 at 13:43:06, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>On August 22, 2002 at 13:38:17, Rajen Gupta wrote: >> >>>in practical terms how much faster would an 8 way processor be for the most >>>scaleable commercial chess programme which i believe is shredder? >>> >>>rajen >> >> >>If it turned out to be 1.5X faster than a 4-way that would probably be >>a huge plus... memory is a problem on 2-way and 8 way boxes... > >thanks: sorry for the obvious quesion but how fast is a 4 way compared to a >single or a 2 way(i assume a 2 way is about 1.75 times a single) A dual k7 is clocked at 2.13Ghz nowadays with the new cores on the market now. That's 4.26Ghz in total. The quad xeons are about 4 x 900Mhz = 3.6Ghz. So the quads are way slower from absolute viewpoint. >rajen
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