Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 07:40:30 09/17/02
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On September 16, 2002 at 18:02:46, Terry McCracken wrote: >On September 16, 2002 at 14:00:49, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>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. > >That's interesting! > >Maybe when the Itanium becomes the Intel and Windows Standard, and programmers >modify their programmes for these new platforms, we'll see a great increase of >overall performance. > >However, it seems that it is a few years away before this chip becomes >affordable and is sold for the home computing market. > >Of course by that time, it will be incredably fast with more abilities, i.e. >when the Pentium Pro or P6 became enhanced and the PII was sold for home >computing, then the PIII. > >The future looks good..but it would be nice if it were here now!;-) > >Terry Remember that "some" say that 64 bits will _never_ become the "standard" chip. Of course some said that the 80286 (16 bit chip) was plenty for home computers and the 80386 (32 bit chip) would never catch on either. :)
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