Author: Michael P. Nance Sr.
Date: 08:52:15 09/07/03
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On September 07, 2003 at 11:41:36, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On September 07, 2003 at 03:35:35, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote: > >>On September 06, 2003 at 23:03:31, Sietel Monic wrote: >> >>>I was on playchess.com and a opteron user said his dual 2.0 ghz's doubled >>>compared to a dual 2.0 ghz athlon mp's..... is this have any truth?? He's >>>looking at 4,800 kn/s on deep fritz 7!!!! thats more then most quads! >>>I do relize you couldnt have this kn/s with df7 because it's not 64 bit capable >>>but such programs like deep sjeng or crafty will be this much imporoved??? >> >>For Deep Sjeng, an Opteron 2.0Ghz would be as fast as an Athlon XP 3.4Ghz, >>*when running in 64 bit mode*. Also, the Opeteron is much better optimized >>for a dual configuration as the Athlon is. Given this, doubled performance >>may be possible. >> >>But note that playchess implies he was running Windows, so he cannot have >>been using a 64 bit version. > >One note to dispel urban legend: "You do _not_ need a 64 bit O/S to run a >64 bit program." 64 bit support in the O/S helps some things, such as using >a large memory footprint. But a program can execute 64 bit instructions even >when running under a 32 bit O/S. Sun ran this way for _years_ on their >ultra-sparc processors. Dr. Hyatt,Thanks for shedding some light on the Topic. I' m affraid My feeble Brain can't graps whats going on here. May-be one Day I'll get ,just like retirement,when You get older.>>>>Mike> > >> >>So it's unlikely that it was true (twice as fast as an Athlon), but it's >>not entirely impossible either. >> >>>Im confused by all this 64 bit thing. Can someone shed some light on what >>>exactly 64 bit does, and what it may do for chess. I always thought it just >uped the cache memory so it thus made things faster since info travels much >>>much less time then from memory chips. So very bad at keeping up with >>>technology... >> >>The main thing is that it is easier to work with very large databases, >>but this is not very relevant to chessprograms. What is important is that >>the Opteron can do an entire 64 bit calculation at one time, whereas old >>chips needed to do 2 x 32 bit calculations to get the same. Also, the >>Opteron uses a new instruction set with more registers, which can make >>calculations even more efficient. >> >>It's not only 64 bits, the Opteron does away with some limitations of >>the old x86 Intel design while still running old code extremely fast. >> >>-- >>GCP
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