Author: William Bryant
Date: 12:24:32 06/05/04
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On June 04, 2004 at 22:49:21, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On June 04, 2004 at 22:38:59, Joshua Shriver wrote: > >>As I embark on a new adventure as a chess engine developer I wonder what is the >>best architecture to develope for? >> >>Keeping in mind I'd like to write assembly cores but C overall? >>While I've been a long Alpha fan.. right now it seems the best cores are Opteron >>and G5's. >> >>Any comments are appreciated. >> >>Sincerely, >>Joshua Shriver > > >Opterons and alphas are great. Opteron is already significantly faster, >however, and the gap will continue to widen as alpha development seems to have >slowed way down since the rights were sold by DEC a few years back. > >Opteron looks like the chip of the future, although Intel has announced an >X86-64 processor for their future, scheduled for early next year. How it will >perform given the opteron will be 2 years old is a question to be answered once >it is actually delivered... Any comments about the performance of IBM's G5 processor. A dual G5 with a FSB of 1GHz sounds competitive, and the price is similar to what people have quoted for build-your-own opteron systems on this board. Wm
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