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Subject: Re: If we all send $10.00 the SSDF can buy two Dual Opterons :-)

Author: Jorge Pichard

Date: 09:52:34 07/31/04

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On July 30, 2004 at 23:33:17, Dann Corbit wrote:

>On July 30, 2004 at 16:55:36, Jorge Pichard wrote:
>
>>On July 30, 2004 at 14:30:54, Dann Corbit wrote:
>>
>>>On July 30, 2004 at 05:01:50, Jorge Pichard wrote:
>>>
>>>>The SSDF should also be testing on Dual Opterons for SMP capable programs and
>>>>have two separates rating lists; the actual single processor rating List and the
>>>>Dual Processors rating List.
>>>
>>>I am guessing that if you donate dual opterons to all of the SSDF members, they
>>>will gladly accept them and test with them.
>>
>>
>>If we all send $10.00 the SSDF can buy two Dual Opterons, instead of asking for
>>a single donor :-)
>
>How will that help?  Do you know how long it would take to run 1000 chess games
>at 40 moves/2hours on only two machines?
>
>(2 games per day for 500 days working around the clock, but who's counting).
>
>They would need at least 10 machines, and 20 machines would be better, I think.

You are forgetting about the original post, only the SMP programs which are not
too many would be tested on the Dual processors, the rest of the programs will
still be tested on a single processor machine.


Pichard



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