Author: Matthew Hull
Date: 11:24:36 03/17/03
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On March 17, 2003 at 13:26:46, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On March 17, 2003 at 06:43:53, Jorge Pichard wrote: > >>On March 16, 2003 at 21:03:07, Jason Kasick wrote: >> >>>Anyone heard of Polywell computers, namely the ones with the AMD 2500 chips? >> >>Since for Chess the CPU is what really count, here is an economical PC. >> >>http://computers.cnet.com/hardware/0-1018-404-20837925.html?tag=txt > > >the CPU is not the _only_ thing to look at. Memory bandwidth is another. A >machine >with a MB that supports interleaved memory will be somewhat faster, but >generally somewhat >more expensive as well. There are other issues too, of course. Intel uses interleaved memory. What do SGI, IBM, SUN, use on their SMP machines? And for Cray, what was "crossbar"? Matt
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