Author: Drexel,Michael
Date: 09:25:12 10/20/03
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On October 20, 2003 at 10:00:09, Earl Fuller wrote: >Well in case some of you have not heard, AMD has released their new Athlon 64 >and the Athlon 64 FX. This is a 64-bit CPU. Yes, it will run 32 bit programs! >and faster ! Whats the big deal ? Well, from what i've read, the fastest 32-bit >desktop CPU's "Athlon XP and the Pentium 4" can only address 4 GB of ram. But, >the new 64-bit can address 256 terabytes of ram. Interesting, don't you think? >Most likely in a year you will see a chess program in 64bit being tested with >these new CPU's./motherboards/and OS. >Microsoft all ready has an XP, OS in beta for the 64 bit! >I believe we are about to see another giant leap in chess computer programs >performances, ratings ! should be an exciting time for chess programmers! >Shredder is already at 2810, how far will it go ? >Earl Your refer obviously to SSDF rating. That means there will be no difference at all because they are using max. Athlon 1200 for testing. 2810 SSDF is not 2810 ELO. You could as well calibrate the list by -/+ 1000 points so that Shredder has about 1810 or 3810. Michael
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