Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 11:00:49 09/16/02
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On September 16, 2002 at 10:44:07, Terry McCracken wrote: >On September 16, 2002 at 10:35:57, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>On September 15, 2002 at 18:11:00, Joachim Rang wrote: >> >>>On September 15, 2002 at 17:35:53, Jorge Pichard wrote: >>> >>>>In the upcoming match versus Kramnik and Kasparov, Intel could promote their new >>>>Xeon processors by preparing a special 8x system. >>>> >>>>http://www.intel.com/pressroom/archive/releases/20020911comp.htm?iid=Homepage+Update_020911a& >>> >>>I doubt that there will be enough time to build and test such a system toroughly >>>until october, so I think they will use other hardware. >>> >>>But nobody seems to know what kind of machine they will use. Or does someone >>>know something? >> >> >>Notice that the chipset discussed in the link is a _dual_ processor chipset >>_only_. Not a quad, and definitely not an 8-way. > >Hi Robert, how do you think the top Itaniums would perform? >Or do you think it wouldn't help that much due to the fact they really >are 64-bit processors, which need 64-bit systems and programmes? > >Terry I can't begin to guess about how they would perform in general. For Crafty, the new itaniums are really fast. However, the larger multiple-cpu boxes are NUMA and they require some changes to the SMP code that I am currently looking at, so that data is closer to a CPU whenever possible.
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