Author: Vincent Diepeveen
Date: 08:12:32 10/21/02
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On October 20, 2002 at 13:23:25, Jorge Pichard wrote: >Deep Junior is strong, but we have to realize that the Deep Fritz's team spent >almost 1.5 years modifying Deep Fritz Anti Human playing style, in order to >accomplish the Draw against Kramnik. I would have NOT accepted anything less >than a 4x MP against Kasparov, unless a Dual 3.0 Ghz MP is available by >December. there is no K7 MP which runs at 4 processors. If you mean 4 x Xeon P3-1.4 to 1.6Ghz then you are in a different price league. The sponsor from junior will answer the question to you perhaps, but i guess it is not so hard to answer the questoin: they sell dual Xeon systems more than other systems. So why not play on a dual xeon system? I do not see relationship with Fritz here. It is 2 competitors playing against a GM. Why would junior play better on some stupid 8 processor Xeon system 900Mhz only, that's 7200Mhz , versus 2 x 2.8 = 5.6Ghz very efficient dual system. Only programs like DIEP function better on 8 processors. I do not believe fritz is faster on the 8 x 900 system than it would be on a 2 x 2.8Ghz P4. My own experiences are that Fritz is weaker on that 8 processor system than on that 2 x 2.8P4 Xeon. However for marketing reasons they chose to play on 8 x 900 seemingly. Many explanations why the 8 processor is way way weaker for fritz are already posted to CCC previous weeks. Note that the K7 has a MP version which runs in SMP systems, but that the intel processor has 'Xeon' processors that run in SMP systems. It doesn't have a 'MP' version like the K7.
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