Author: Miguel A. Ballicora
Date: 14:06:32 12/29/03
I am considering the possibility to build a computer for chess, for my own program (http://www.msu.edu/~ballicor/gav). My program is bitboard based but still uses structures of 32 bits; however, going to 64 bits ints should be easy. So, it is very tempting to me to buy a 64 bit AMD. What motherboard should I consider? what CPU? FX or not? Opteron? any other hint? The more options you give me the better because I have to consider the price. I would like to have something fast but I would not pay double to get 10% increase in performance, for instance. Dual would be nice, because I plan to develop an SMP engine in the future, but it might wait if it is too expensive. How about hard drives? any suggestion? Are any compilers that produce binaries that take advantage of the 64 bits? GCC? Intel? If the hardware is compatible with Linux much better because I plan to use that OS for other scientific programs. Thanks a lot. Miguel
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