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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