Author: Vincent Diepeveen
Date: 08:49:36 02/16/04
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On February 16, 2004 at 11:30:57, Jorge Pichard wrote: >I still don't understand why Fritz nor Shredder have not been able to get an AMD >sponsor, since 95% of the times it is sponsored by company that runs Intel >inside. They need to get a different sponsor in order to beat Hydra in the World >Championship. > >Hydra gets effectively around 4 million nodes a second > >I am very sure that a Quad opteron for a software program is >faster than 4 fpga cards 30Mhz are. > >Fritz and Shredder run in Paderborn on an identically constructed Transtec >diagram workstation with two Intel each Xeon processors with 3,06 Ghz and 2 >gigabyte memory. Deep Fritz will also count over 1 gigabyte Hashtabellen and >with 2 to 2.3 million position/second for instance a search depth on 14 to 16 >sections will reach, in the final game by means of 20 sections, strongly >dependent on position and material. > >When ordered a Quad Opteron cost perhaps $45k and fpga cards cost only $3000 a + 5 year salaries Donninger+Erdogan with the realistic future looming that 0 cards will be sold. The quad xeon or dual xeon , that's what they get for free from a sponsor. So what is cheaper? a) buying quad opteron b) paying chrilly c) free computer from sponsor I wish i could get a free dual Xeon!! Here at home i have an outdated dual K7 2.127Ghz which i paid myself. I have 0 sponsors currently for coming tournament and the 512 processor project i have cancelled as i get not paid to write special software for a supercomputer and i do not get paid to write an additional 1200+ pages of paper. >card and a 4 node cluster Quad Xeon 3.06Ghz costs less than $45k. >Here are some comparison of a Dual Opteron versus a Dual Xeon: >http://www.gamepc.com/labs/view_content.asp?id=opt248vsxeon32a&page=5
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