Author: Matthew White
Date: 13:24:12 03/17/03
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On March 17, 2003 at 16:16:06, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On March 17, 2003 at 14:24:36, Matthew Hull wrote: > >>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"? > >Depends on what you mean by "Intel uses interleaved memory". There were, in the >past, plenty of dual MBs without interleaving. > >Cray also used interleaving. I ran on machines with up to 32-way (32 banks) >interleaving. >I don't know of any super-computer that didn't/doesn't use interleaving. > >I don't use SMP suns. SGI interleaves. IBM also does. I'd suspect big Suns do >this as well >but don't have access to any. > > >> >>Matt The Suns do interleaving. The E10k's do according to one of Sun's marketing pages (http://www.sun.com.au/products/hardware/highend/10000/Tour/memory.html). I found evidence that several of the other SMP machines do as well. Matt
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