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Subject: Is Shredder slowed down by checking 100 years of master games ?

Author: Jorge Pichard

Date: 10:39:46 08/21/04


The transtec hardware, transtec a Quad Opteron server, was arranged particularly
for the WM in Ramat Gan and is used now also with the computer duel in Abu
Dhabi. "successes show that our particularly reliable products work
satisfactorily with high requirements like PC chess", so transtecs chess project
manager Dieter Bodemer. The computer used in the tournament counts five million
time faster than a human nerve cell. Within seconds millions of possible courses
are examined. Beyond that the program stored all large master portions of the
last 100 years. The Tuebinger IT Systemhersteller sent transtec Quad Opteron
server into running, which was equipped with AMD Opteron processors to one. The
exact configuration of the WM computer: · transtec Quad Opteron server · 4 AMD
Opteron 848,2,0 GHz · 4 GB ECC DDR333 SDRAM · Onboard dual Gigabit Ethernet ·
Onboard dual Ultra320 SCSI · 2 Hot plug PCI x 133 MHz of card locations · 3 PCI
x 66 MHz of card locations · CD-ROM, floppy one · 1 36 GB Hotswap Ultra320 SCSI
plate · 3 free Hotswap plates of designations of location · Rackmount housing, 4
HE · redundant power pack, 1000 Watts · Windows server 2003 the transtec
computers with particularly fast processors and particularly efficient memory
are arranged in the Built ton order procedure and co-ordinated thus perfectly
with the operational area.



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