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Subject: Re: Personal Super Computer

Author: Keith Evans

Date: 21:23:01 05/06/05

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On May 05, 2005 at 19:48:50, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On May 05, 2005 at 17:07:09, Andreas Guettinger wrote:
>
>>On May 05, 2005 at 11:43:40, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>>
>>>On May 05, 2005 at 05:45:07, Martin Andersen2 wrote:
>>>
>>>>Hello!
>>>>
>>>>Orion is shipping a nice small "supercomputer" which has 96 CPU's and
>>>>a peak performance of 230 Gflops. It costs only $100000 :-)
>>>>
>>>>How would an optimized Crafty do on such a thing ? Would it be stronger
>>>>than Hydra ?
>>>>
>>>>Text and pictures here: http://www.orionmulti.com/products/specs_ds96
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>Martin Andersen
>>>
>>>
>>>This is a cluster box.  Currently crafty will not run on a cluster.  I hope to
>>>change this over the coming year however...
>>
>>On what kind of cluster will you test?
>>
>>regards
>>Andy
>
>
>We are buying a cluster of dual opteron boxes, but each opteron will be a
>dual-core processor.  So we should have 64 nodes with 4 cpus per node, probably
>using both gigabit ethernet and some myrinet hardware we have sitting around.

How do you handle the transposition table(s) on a cluster? Are there are good
references? Are you inventing a new technique?

Clueless,
Keith



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