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Subject: Re: needing advice on new dual processor computer

Author: Omid David Tabibi

Date: 09:59:07 07/07/03

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On July 07, 2003 at 11:34:11, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:

>On July 07, 2003 at 10:36:00, Joachim Rang wrote:
>
>>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
>
>I would if the government didn't provide me with Europes fastest machine for
>computerchess available: 1440 processor TERAS machine. 1024 MIPS R14000
>processors and 416 processor Itanium2 1.3Ghz Madisons.
>
>I'll be running hopefully at 500 processor partition (500 x 500Mhz = 250Ghz).

What NPS do you expect to get on that machine?


>
>Thanks to the dutch government and NWO, NCF, computermanufacturer SGI, WGS,
>IKAT, University of Maastricht and another number of organisations i forgot to
>mention here (but not deliberately) i am sure diep will try to do its utmost
>best in world champs 2003.
>
>Best regards,
>Vincent



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