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Subject: Re: It's the fastest available system!

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 12:24:46 10/02/02

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On October 02, 2002 at 13:49:25, Joachim Rang wrote:

>On October 02, 2002 at 11:10:36, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>>On October 02, 2002 at 08:17:39, Joachim Rang wrote:
>>
>>>On October 02, 2002 at 07:12:38, George Sobala wrote:
>>>
>>>>On October 02, 2002 at 05:00:41, T. Opas wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>It is Deep Fritz 7, but the version is unclear, because there is an agreement,
>>>>>that Kramnik got the same version as used in the match three month before the
>>>>>match, means latest on the 4th of july. But the official release of DF7 for
>>>>>public was about the 15th of august!
>>>>>Hardware should be 8 x 900 MHz Compaq wizh 4 GB RAM.
>>>>>
>>>>>Best,
>>>>> Torsten
>>>>
>>>>So - 8x900MHz? Given the problems of non-linearity between number of processors
>>>>and "real" speedup, wouldn't a spanking new dual 2.4 or 2.8GHz P4 be as fast (or
>>>>even faster)?
>>>
>>>name me a better (available) system.
>>>There is no. Please Robert, clear up!
>>
>>
>>Maybe or maybe not.
>>
>>IE for example, using a rough performance estimate for crafty 8 x 900mhz would
>>theoretically like a 7200mhz machine.  But in reality, it would run like a
>>(1 + 7*.7*)900 = 5.9 * 900 =5300 mhz roughly
>>
>>using a quad 2.2ghz machine would in theory provide 8800 mhz, but with crafty
>>would be closer to (1+3*.7)*2200 == 3.1*2200 = 6800mhz, which is significantly
>>faster...
>
>
>but, the Quad-system would use the new Xeon-CPUs, with the reduced
>operations/cycle (like the P4-CPU), which are for chess about 30% slower than
>the old PIII-CPU's, aren't they?
>
>The Xeon-System would be equal to a 4410 MHz PIII-Mhz.
>
>Am I right?


That I really don't know.  I have not tried a P4 xeon as of yet so I don't have
any
data from personal experience...




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