Author: Russell Reagan
Date: 10:40:23 11/18/03
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On November 18, 2003 at 12:11:22, Gordon Rattray wrote: >Should I consider buying a dual Opteron 248 system? I use single processer and >multi-processor based chess engines. I'm currently running a dual Athlon 1800+ >(1.53 Ghz). I have looked into getting a system like this. The only reason to get one yet, IMO, is if you are a programmer looking to release an Opteron version of your chess engine. Otherwise, if you are not a programmer, you are limited to a handful of programs that really take full advantage of the hardware (Crafty, Sjeng, and ?). I'd wait until more commercial engines supported Opteron natively before getting one, assuming you aren't a programmer. I'm a programmer, and I'd like to have my engine support the Opteron, but I'm not going to take that plunge yet because I have other things I can work on right now to improve my program, and if I wait, maybe prices will go down some. In any case, there will be more software support if I wait. But those are just my reasons. It sounds like you would definitely use and enjoy such a system though, so I'd say get one at some point :-)
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