Author: Eugene Nalimov
Date: 09:26:04 04/22/04
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On April 22, 2004 at 11:04:30, Robert Hyatt wrote: >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... Hyperthreading should help in exactly such cases :-) I've seen results of tests "how hyperthreading helps" for large server application. Speedup improved almost linearly from ~7% on single CPU system to ~25% on 8-CPU one. Thanks, Eugene >Opterons are a different >matter, Itaniums might also be, although NUMA does change things...
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