Author: Albert Silver
Date: 06:55:57 08/22/04
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On August 21, 2004 at 13:39:46, Jorge Pichard wrote:
Reads to me like some marketing specialist who wrote this based on what they
loosely understood: the opening book is made up of millions of moves that
constitute all the most significant opening plays of master games from the last
100 years. Then the guys asks what that means and since he is not a chess
player, it is explained that it basically means it contains large portions of
master games.
Albert
>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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