Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 18:47:57 11/02/05
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On November 02, 2005 at 18:28:34, Vincent Lejeune wrote: >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. Sounds far more reasonable, although I presume that leans heavily on the vector stuff... that is still 50 picoseconds per FLOP, which is way fast... Not that a chess programmer cares anything about FLOPs. Except maybe the Dolly Parton type FLOPs. :)
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