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Subject: Re: WCCC Hardware

Author: Eugene Nalimov

Date: 16:42:54 08/15/05

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On August 15, 2005 at 19:23:00, Frank E. Oldham wrote:

>On August 15, 2005 at 13:57:03, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>>On August 15, 2005 at 13:12:25, Gregory Owett wrote:
>>
>>>On August 15, 2005 at 11:22:28, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>>>
>>>>On August 15, 2005 at 11:03:54, Keith Hyams wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>Does anyone know if/where a list of the hardware that the programs are using has
>>>>>been published? Details of version numbers would be interesting too.
>>>>>                        Regards
>>>>>                            Keith
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>No.  No published list.  Reasons unknown.
>>>>
>>>>I'll start the ball rolling however:
>>>>
>>>>Crafty version 19.20, running on an AMD quad 875 machine.  These are 2.2ghz
>>>>processors with dual-cores.  So it appears to be an 8 cpu machine.  Technically
>>>>it is a 4-node NUMA architecture where each node has two processors, each has
>>>>1024kb of L2 cache...  Typical search speeds are around 16.0 million nodes per
>>>>second.  Typical search depth hovers around 16 plies or so, +/- 1 depending on
>>>>the complexity of the position.  Far deeper in the endgame of course.
>>>>
>>>>We have the 3-4-5 piece endgame tables.  I'm probably going to add a couple of
>>>>useful 6 piece files like krpkrp and kqpkqp...
>>>
>>>Can you say the approximate price of such a machine?
>>
>>whatever 4 875 opterons go for, plus probably another 1500 US dollars for the 2U
>>rack-mount chassis, a disk drive, and memory...
>
>
>Sun sells one for about $30,000 -- ;-)
>Frank

Look, for example, at www.pcforeveryone.com.

4 sockets 2.2GHz dual-core Opteron server costs ~$16k.
8 sockets 2.2GHz dual-core Opteron server costs ~$37k.

Thanks,
Eugene



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