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Subject: Re: needing advice on new dual processor computer

Author: Joachim Rang

Date: 07:36:00 07/07/03

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On July 07, 2003 at 09:54:44, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:

>On July 07, 2003 at 06:27:01, DANIEL JOHNSON wrote:
>
>>I PLAN ON BUILDING A NEW DUAL PROCESSOR COMPUTER WHEN THE NEW .09 CHIPS COME OUT
>>WITH 1 MEG CACHE MEMORY AND HAS 800 MHZ FSB ABOUT 3GB MEMORY, DUAL SATA RAID 0
>>HDD, SWIFTECH WATERCOOLING, BUT WHICH CPU WILL BE BEST AND FASTEST FOR CHESS
>>OPTERON OR XEON
>
>Opteron will be trivially in 0.09
>
>The question will be however whether the Xeon is there first in 0.09 or Opteron.
>
>I bet at Xeon in 0.09 being there first.
>
>As you can see at specint crafty at 64 bits opteron is 1562 rated. this is just
>1.8Ghz opteron.
>
>I expect for other programs when compiled 64 bits and with 16 GPRs and all the
>other features to be equally fast (having same speed difference). Fritz is
>assembly. In order to run in 64 bits at opteron Frans Morsch must now already be
>working at that as for every new processor he has to rewrite nearly the entire
>program. Must be hard worker that guy! I do not know whether he is busy with
>that now. I can ask if you want to.
>
>For most of the others it is just a simple recompile though. The work i need in
>diep to profit from having more bits in each register (the other advantages you
>get for free or are compiler issues) is not little either. It will give a few %
>though.
>
>When opteron is there in 0.09 it will be way faster, the chip is actually
>designed to be 0.09. It is however interesting to see what speed the prescott
>core will have in 0.09, i guess they will be sooner there.
>
>Best regards,
>Vincent

Vincent,

will you use an opteron machine in Graz this year?

regards Joachim



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