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Subject: Re: For all tuning/hardware freaks

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 08:04:30 04/22/04

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On April 22, 2004 at 11:01:41, Eugene Nalimov wrote:

>On April 22, 2004 at 10:57:18, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>>On April 22, 2004 at 02:08:01, Jouni Uski wrote:
>>
>>>You are all losers! According to CSS 2/2004 sheik XXXX (chess fan from UAB) have
>>>bought 16-way XEON box to run Fritz, but it didn't run. Hmm... He has not enough
>>>money left to buy Deep Fritz may be?
>>>
>>>Jouni
>>
>>
>>1.  Where can anyone buy a 16-way xeon?  Most I have seen is 8-way.  And it
>>doesn't perform very well.
>>
>>2.  UAB?  As in where I am?  Have heard of no such machine here at all...
>
>http://www.unisys.com/products/es7000__servers/hardware/index.htm
>
>Thanks,
>Eugene


I was fixing to post an update.

Also, IBM has a 16-way box...

After my first experience with 8-way xeons, I won't hold my breath for chess
performance, memory performance was _way_ bad...  Opterons are a different
matter, Itaniums might also be, although NUMA does change things...



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