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

Author: Francesco Di Tolla

Date: 01:43:20 04/24/03

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On April 23, 2003 at 16:14:16, Pavel Blokhine wrote:

>On April 23, 2003 at 13:06:46, Abel Dávalos wrote:
>
>>On April 23, 2003 at 03:19:51, Vincent Lejeune wrote:
>>
>>>Could we get more information about this test , please ?
>>>
>>>What motherboard did you use for the test ? was the CPU overcloked ? what size
>>>for hashtables ?
>>>
>>>Thanks in advance !
>>
>>The cpu wasn´t overcloked, 1.4 Gz for each processor, i didn´t modify the amount
>>for hashtables the test run with the default settings. A motherboard Kephri was
>>used.
>
>
>But still, it was two processors versus one, so it is not as impressive as if it
>would been with only one Opteron processor.
I read it the oppiste way: the performance is almost doubled by the second CPU,
but the clock of each CPU was smaller. Hence I think we see some improvement
from the 64 bits....



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