Author: Peter Berger
Date: 10:40:42 02/10/05
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On February 09, 2005 at 22:58:34, Mike Byrne wrote: >The dual Opteron 244 is still in process of being built. The company has >promised me that it will be overnighted tomorrow - to arrive on Friday. Little >time left for testing.,etc. > >So at this point in time, the Crafty Classic code has not been optimized for 64 >bits. Fortunately, I have received two different Crafty 19.18 Xp Pro 64 >compiliations for running Crafty (thanks to both kind souls) and I have the Win >Pro 64 OS installation disk (downloaded from MS) ready to go. So far , I know >one of the 64 bit execuables will do 3.1M+/nps on the Crafty bench test in the >planned configuration. The other 64 bit executable could be faster or slower, >but at this time it is not tested. > >My tests comparing 19.18 to Crafty Classic shows that 19.18 is stronger than >Classic , so it is likely I will go with stock Crafty 19.18 64-bit with just >some of my favorite Crafty parameter settings. (will be revealed until after >tournament ends). > >I do not want to think about plan b should the box not ship tomorrow or should >it not work. Although all reports are that the latest Win Xp Pro 64 is one of >the most stabled OS betas ever in MS history. > >Isn't living life on the edge grand... Just a tip: don't forget that you have to build new opening books on the Opteron. The 32-bit books are not compatible, but it is not obvious at first sight, because they *kind of* work (only content is completely screwed up :) ). Peter
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