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Subject: Re: Never!

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 14:30:32 10/02/02

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On October 02, 2002 at 16:39:28, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:

>On October 02, 2002 at 08:21:06, Joachim Rang 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 theit hands on a dual 2.8 Ghz it would be a little
>>>bit faster than 8x 900Mhz.
>>>
>>>Pichard.
>>
>>On this machine DF7 makes 2950Knodes/s. Name me a Dual-Board with this speed.
>>Don't forget the speed for chessprograms of the P4 is approximately 30% slower
>>than PIII or AMD.
>
>But you can only run it 4 cpu's at that 8 processor machine.
>So it's more like 4 x 450k nps = 1800k nps. minus some loss = 1600k nps.
>
>note that non-commercial deep fritz is faster than commercial deepfritz
>*perhaps*. Just guessing. It seems at dual K7 at least.
>
>Perhaps it is my imagination that Frans got more nps at world champs than
>deepfritz (6) got at my dual k7 :)
>
>I heard some rumours about cache line length and writing within the same
>cache line (64 bytes at DDR ram and 128 at dual P4 and 32 at old dual P3).
>
>Anyway. 8 processor Xeon 933Mhz ==> 1.6MLN nodes a second *at most*.

It should go faster than that.  I go 1.6M nodes per second on a quad 700
xeon.  2M L2 might help even more on the 8-way box...




>
>2 processor K7 ==> 2.2 MLN a second
>
>Best regards,
>Vincent



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