Author: Vincent Diepeveen
Date: 13:44:31 10/02/02
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On October 02, 2002 at 07:47:45, Jorge Pichard wrote: >On October 02, 2002 at 07:41:19, Jorge Pichard 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)? >> >> >>I agree that if they can get their hands on a dual 2.8 Ghz it would be a little >>bit faster than 8x 900Mhz. > >PS: Why would they use an old 8x 900 Mhz MP, against the strongest human player, >unless they are planning to update it just before the match to an 8x 1.6 Ghz >which are available. > >Pichard. they aren't. they will show up with a dual k7. even if it has a sticker on it: "8 processor Xeon", then it still is a dual k7 let me tell you that for sure. their sponsor just has K7 hardware that's the problem :)
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