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Subject: Re: Comparing DB vs 10.20GHz Intel Nehalem

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 19:24:01 07/03/03

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On July 03, 2003 at 22:12:03, Mick Turner wrote:

>If I purchased a box with 10.20 ghx X 8cpu;
>
>what type of calculation speed would I be getting ?

It does not exist, so any answer would be hypothetical.  However, let's suppose
that a 1GHz 64 bit chip can do a million chess calculations per second, and just
for fun we will scale a 10GHz machine to do 10 million.  Then if we have 0% SMP
loss, you would have 80 M NPS.  Deep Blue sustained 200 M NPS.  Of course, all
of this is meaningless.  There are slow searchers that might play better and get
1/10 of the NPS.  Or we might rip out the eval -- count only wood -- and do one
trillion NPS, but get killed with zero points in a thousand game match.

>How would it compare to DB hardware ?

It would be either weaker, or stronger.  Unless it was the same.  Trichotomy and
all of that.



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