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Subject: Re: Why did hydra team chose adams?

Author: Günther Simon

Date: 08:52:24 05/26/05

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On May 26, 2005 at 10:37:25, Uri Blass wrote:

>On May 26, 2005 at 10:24:49, Günther Simon wrote:
>
>>On May 26, 2005 at 07:11:26, Steve Glanzfeld wrote:
>>
>>>On May 26, 2005 at 05:03:01, Robert Hollay wrote:
>>>
>>>>Just out of curiosity: how much stronger would be Rebel on a today's top PC
>>>>then it was on those 1998's one?
>>>
>>>As a very rough estimation, you can calculate the speed doublings for typical
>>>CPUs (for example: 500 MHz -> 1 GHz -> 2 GHz are 2 doublings), and multiply with
>>>30...50 Elo. It is not clear which value is more near to the truth, against
>>>humans. Among comps, even values up to +80 Elo for twice the comp speed have
>>>been used with good correlation. Against humans, more speed has less impact.
>>>
>>>Of course, that means the performance gain with exactly the same software
>>>version on faster hardware.
>>>
>>>Hardware experts will be able to explain that a modern 2 GHZ CPU is more than 4
>>>times faster than a 500 MHz P3, but that's why I write "very rough estimation."
>>>That uncertainty is unimportant because we have to guessimate :-) the Elo gain
>>>per doubling, anyway...
>>
>>I just want to add that it is vice versa, at least for PIII to PIV machines.
>>A PIV 2Ghz e.g. is much less than 4 times faster than a PIII 500Mhz(in kn/s).
>>I don't remember though, why the PIII has a relative advantage...
>>(Here, I could figure out e.g. that a PIII 650 is just ~ 3.3 times slower
>>than a PIV 2.66 Ghz instead of the expected 4.1 times (if linear) - of course
>>both machines are well tuned and configured).
>>
>>Guenther
>
>The question was
>
>"how much stronger would be Rebel on a today's top PC"?

I did not answer any question...

>
>PIV is not one of today's top PC so it is not relevant.

There was nothing mentioned of a 'todays top PC', actually I referred
to a 'modern 2GHZ CPU', thus your post is irrelevant.

Guenther

>
>If you compare A3000(that is 2000Mhz) with PIII 500 mhz you will find that
>the A3000 is clearly more than 4 times faster.
>
>I found that My A3000(2000 mhz) 3 times faster than A1000(1000 mhz) for Movei
>inspite of the fact that you could expect it to be only twice faster based on
>the mhz.
>
>
>Uri



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