Author: Sean Empey
Date: 11:03:14 07/13/04
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On July 13, 2004 at 13:40:37, steven blincoe wrote: >>Hardware is part of the program. >How would you test the strength of dedicated units when their hardware veries so >much? > >its true to some extent..sometimes i test computers with different hardware but >the resluts will generally always be true to the hardware > >the stronger the hardware used in a dedicated unit ,then the more powerful the >rating > >there will be no computer running on a Motoroloa 68000 32 bit processor that >could lose to a computer running on an 1806 processor >no matter how powerful the code for the chess program > > >but every year it seems we have the same resulting discussions for the WCCC... >this program lost because it was not running on a dual operton..or ..if we >used a qaud opteron we would have preformed better..etc.etc. > >Steve Yes, the discussions happen but they are IMHO, useless questions. Asking if Program A would run better on a quad is not reasonable if it is not a MP program, etc. I think people like to speculate how strong a certain program _might_ be, but their is a huge difference in MP implementations and pulling it off. If a program is not 64-bit then asking if it would have done better running on 64-bit architecture is also useless. Just my two cents. -Sean
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