Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 18:29:24 06/05/04
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On June 05, 2004 at 15:24:32, William Bryant wrote: >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 The processors look good, but I have not personally had access to anything recent from IBM that uses this processor, so I can't comment. Someone posted reasonable crafty nps numbers for a G5 within the past week or two however, for a reference point...
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