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Subject: Re: Dual Core G5

Author: Vincent Lejeune

Date: 15:28:34 11/02/05

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On November 02, 2005 at 18:02:59, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On November 02, 2005 at 16:23:36, James T. Walker wrote:
>
>>On November 02, 2005 at 16:19:03, John Dillard wrote:
>>
>>>On November 02, 2005 at 15:34:30, Joshua Shriver wrote:
>>>
>>>>http://www.apple.com/powermac/
>>>>
>>>>nice :) would make a good quad system.
>>>>
>>>>-Josh
>>>
>>>
>>>They're making a quad system.  There's not other system on the market today,
>>>super computer or otherwise, that can process as many gigaflops of info as the
>>>dual core G5.  I just wonder if any of the chess programs will benefit from this
>>>power?
>>
>>I know really nothing about computers super or otherwise but I suspect that 76
>>Gigaflops on the quad core is not faster than the fastest supercomputer of
>>today.
>>Jim
>
>I'm not even convinced that 76 gigaflops is doable on any microcomputer today...
>
>Seems like a _BBBIIIIIGGGGGGG_ stretch...
>
>basically one floating point operation every 13 picoseconds or so...


Yes, for very specific optimization with very specific SIMD instructions :

http://www.apple.com/powermac/dualcore.html

But more seriously, they give 21 Gigaflops for the Linpack benchmark.



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