Author: enrico carrisco
Date: 10:21:48 11/09/03
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On November 09, 2003 at 08:42:44, Joachim Rang wrote: >On November 08, 2003 at 19:03:45, enrico carrisco wrote: > >>On November 08, 2003 at 16:38:54, Vincent Lejeune wrote: >> >>>On November 08, 2003 at 13:06:17, Vincent Lejeune wrote: >>> >>>>On November 08, 2003 at 12:17:51, Jorge Pichard wrote: >>>> >>>>>On November 08, 2003 at 12:11:37, Vincent Lejeune wrote: >>>>> >>>>>>On November 08, 2003 at 12:03:35, Peter Hegger wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>>Hello, >>>>>>>Has anyone heard what hardware and speed of the X3D machine Kasparov will be >>>>>>>playing? >>>>>>>It's annoying that for every top GM vs. program match, the hardware speed is >>>>>>>always so hard to find out. Why do the organisers of these events hate to give >>>>>>>this information? >>>>>>>Regards, >>>>>>>Peter >>>>>> >>>>>>hardare is a 4x3Ghz machine >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>Where did you read this? >>>>> >>>>>Jorge >>>> >>>> >>>>http://www.talkchess.com/forums/1/message.html?326252 >>> >>>John Fernandez from the chessbase team : >>>"Quad Intel Xeon 2.8GHz with 4GB of RAM. " >>> >>>http://www.chessninja.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=10;t=000102;p=1#000004 >> >>Too bad they didn't go for a 4-Way Opteron 246 box. :( >> >>-elc. > >I agree and I wonder why AMD is not eager to sponsor such events with a good >system. It gives good promotion for only a few thousands bucks. > >regards Joachim Addtionally, assuming they don't have Intel sponsoring equipment, they could have built an 8-way Opteron 844 box for cheaper than that Quad Xeon 2.8 GHz (and they also wouldn't be bottlenecking the memory for call cpus down one channel.) :) -elc.
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