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Subject: Re: WCCC: Almost no hardwareadvantage for Crafty

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 16:59:08 06/29/04

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On June 29, 2004 at 18:37:16, enrico carrisco wrote:

>On June 29, 2004 at 04:52:49, Joachim Rang wrote:
>
>>On the german Chessbae-Site, their is an anouncement on which hardware Shredder
>>and Fritz will participate: 4x2.0 GHz Opteron and 4x2.2 GHz Opteron. It is not
>>clear which engine will use which machine, but I think it does not matter much.
>>But Crafty wiht 4+2.4 Ghz Opteron will only have a very slight advantage.
>>
>>Here are the Server-Details:
>>
>>Server 1
>>
>>transtec Quad Opteron Server
>>4 AMD Opteron 848 2.2 GHz
>>4 GB ECC DDR333 SDRAM
>>Onboard Dual Gigabit Ethernet
>>Onboard Dual Ultra320 SCSI
>>2 Hot-plug PCI-X 133 MHz Steckplätze
>>3 PCI-X 66 MHz Steckplätze
>>CD-ROM, Floppy
>>1 36 GB Hotswap Ultra320 SCSI Platte
>>3 freie Hotswap Platten Einbauplätze
>>Rackmount Gehäuse, 4 HE
>>Redundantes Netzteil, 1000 Watt
>>Windows Server 2003
>>
>>Server 2
>>
>>transtec Quad Opteron Server
>>4 AMD Opteron 846 2 GHz
>>4 GB ECC DDR333 SDRAM
>>Onboard Dual Gigabit Ethernet
>>Onboard Dual Ultra320 SCSI
>>2 Hot-plug PCI-X 133 MHz Steckplätze
>>3 PCI-X 66 MHz Steckplätze
>>CD-ROM, Floppy
>>1 36 GB Hotswap Ultra320 SCSI Platte
>>3 freie Hotswap Platten Einbauplätze
>>Rackmount Gehäuse, 4 HE
>>Redundantes Netzteil, 1000 Watt
>>Windows Server 2003
>>
>>source: http://www.chessbase.de
>
>I wonder if the same hardware would show up to the event if Bob hadn't have made
>known his hardware plans so early..
>
>-elc.


You never know.  IE we know the commercial guys don't take me as a serious
threat, so I would think they were planning on opterons all along.

:)



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