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Subject: Re: Diep's Hardware @ WCCC (Information from Vincent Diepeveen)

Author: Jorge Pichard

Date: 07:26:27 11/22/03

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On November 22, 2003 at 10:14:51, Anson T J wrote:

>Information From Vincent about Diep's Setup
>
>Hardware - SGI origin 3800 which has a total of 1024 processors
>
>- Diep is using the biggest partition of 512 processors
>- MIPS R14000
>- 1 terabyte/sec  speed for i/o
>- 1 terabyte/sec speed bandwidth
>- 1 terabyte in total for EGTBs (1,000 GB) (thats many 6 men)
>
>"Effectively the machine is about 50 times faster than a PC"

But it will NOT win, it will search very deep in a particular position, but
without the correct algorithm it will never find the correct plan :-)

Jorge

• Re: Diep's Hardware @ WCCC (Information from Vincent Diepeveen) mike schoonover 07:51:36 11/22/03
• Re: Diep's Hardware @ WCCC (Information from Vincent Diepeveen) Wayne Lowrance 07:29:43 11/22/03

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