Author: Vincent Diepeveen
Date: 17:10:10 08/06/03
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On August 06, 2003 at 19:28:13, Jorge Pichard wrote: >On August 06, 2003 at 18:58:49, Dann Corbit wrote: > >>On August 06, 2003 at 18:25:11, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote: >> >>>I had the opportunity to run some tests on an Opteron machine, >>>and benchmarked Deep Sjeng on it, compared to the Athlon XP. >>> >>>The Opteron is 70% faster. >>> >>>Yes, that's _SEVENTY PERCENTS FASTER_, clock for clock. >>> >>>An 1.6Ghz Opteron runs Deep Sjeng faster than a (nonexisting) 2.7Ghz >>>Athlon XP would. >>> >>>Operating system was Linux 2.4.19, SuSE 8.0 Opteron version. >>>I compiled with GCC 3.2.2, pure (portable) C source. >>> >>>The reference was a MSVC6 SP5 with Processor Pack compile, with >>>optimized parameters, and with optimized assembly language for >>>most move generators and some other functions. (The fastest IA32 >>>binary I have for the Athlon), running on an Athlon XP of the same >>>clockspeed. >> >>An 8 CPU version might play pretty well, I imagine. > >I prefer to buy a Jaguar or a BMW than buying an 8X CPU version :-) it going to be tough to buy a new BMW or new jag here instead of a quad opteron. the cpu's are like $2100 a piece. x 4 = $10k. so for $20k perhaps you're ready. $90k for a cool new BMW here. >Pichard
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