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Subject: Re: ZAPPA used the best Hardware once again

Author: Theo van der Storm

Date: 11:31:48 11/14/05

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On November 13, 2005 at 23:24:31, enrico carrisco wrote:

>On November 13, 2005 at 20:49:56, Jorge Pichard wrote:
>
>>On November 13, 2005 at 13:17:38, Eduard Nemeth wrote:
>>
>>>Much stronger than all other programs!
>
>According to the official website, DIEP used stronger hardware than Zappa.
>
>-elc.

There is no statement that DIEP used stronger hardware than Zappa.
The official website says:

Zappa  	2xAMD dual-core Opteron, 2200 MHz
Diep 	Quad Opteron 2400 MHz

As a first very crude step in the comparison:
2 x 2 x 2200 Mcycles = 8800 Mcycles
is faster then
4 x 2400 Mcycles = 9600 Mcycles.

furthermore:
If from
http://www.amd.com/us-en/Processors/ProductInformation/0,,30_118_8796_8800~97051,00.html
we may conclude that a dual AMD Opteron processor gives about 86% additional
power in comparison with single processors at the same speed,
Diep has an even bigger advantage.

Still, a thourough analysis using chess programs as benchmark
on the actual machines is required to prove your statement.
Evidently the tournament organisation does not have access
to these machines, so it is beyond their(our) scope.

Can anyone present real measurements?

Theo



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