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Subject: Re: Is the opteron good, bad or ugly for computer chess programs?

Author: Vincent Lejeune

Date: 18:34:57 04/22/03

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On April 22, 2003 at 18:13:58, Abel Dávalos wrote:

>On April 22, 2003 at 12:22:56, Ricardo Gibert wrote:
>
>>An opteron review:
>>
>>http://www.aceshardware.com/read.jsp?id=55000251
>>
>>I have no idea how these benchmarks can be interpreted computer chesswise. Is
>>there anyone how will hazard a guess? Or perhaps someone who was previously
>>constrained by an NDA doesn't have to guess. I would certainly like to hear from
>>you. Is the opteron good, bad or ugly for computer chess programs?
>--------
>I had the chance to try a computer with 2 opteron processors model 240. I
>installed the Deep Sjeng program and, in a test position, had a promedy of
>1,200,000 nodes per second, the same position in an Athlon XP+ 2400 had a
>promedy of 700,000 nodes per second.
>
>The operating system is Windows server 2003 with 8 gb ram.
>
>Hope it will be useful.
>
>Regards
>Abel

Very good !

the opteron processors model 240 run @ 1.6 Ghz ? and Athlon XP+ 2400 run @ 2.0
Ghz , right ?



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