Author: Chesster Fritz
Date: 11:47:18 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 >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 Just wait and see what happens when Intel releases it's IA-64 for the public. They are waiting for the software to catch-up,i.e. Microsoft. Expect it to arrive by 2005.
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