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Subject: Re: 64-bit Crafty

Author: Eugene Nalimov

Date: 21:56:38 02/18/04

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On February 19, 2004 at 00:49:33, Russell Reagan wrote:

>On February 19, 2004 at 00:40:09, Eugene Nalimov wrote:
>
>>On February 19, 2004 at 00:33:08, Russell Reagan wrote:
>>
>>>Does Crafty run faster on Opteron or Itanium?
>>
>>It runs faster on 32-CPU Itanium system than on 4-CPU Opteron systems. :-)
>>
>>And answering your next question -- right now you cannot buy Opteron system with
>>more than 4 CPUs, but you can buy 64-CPU Itanium system. Of course if you have
>>enough money...
>
>Thanks Eugene. What about a single CPU? I saw your other post about new Itaniums
>being released this year. Will they be faster than the Opterons? 9 MB of L3
>cache :)

I doubt that. Opteron has too large clock advantage (currently 2.2GHz CPUs are
shipped), and Crafty really doesn't need all that cache. 6Mb in current Itaniums
is more than enough :-)

Thanks,
Eugeen



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