Author: Bruce Moreland
Date: 00:21:29 04/24/99
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On April 24, 1999 at 01:20:23, Dave Gomboc wrote: >On April 24, 1999 at 00:24:18, Bruce Moreland wrote: > >> >>On April 23, 1999 at 23:48:34, Dave Gomboc wrote: >> >>>I forgot to add, IT ISN'T POLITE TO YELL EITHER. >>> >>>Dave >> >>I ran it through Babel Fish, and what it says, if you can trust Babel Fish, is >>that the match should have been done on a 500 mhz Pentium III, and a word that >>the translator translated as "idiot" was used several times to describe he who >>would try to do a match on the hardware that will be used in this match. > >I had noticed the word "idiota" in the original posting, and thought the message >was probably a direct flame of the person setting up the Hiarcs-Yermolinsky >match. I hereby invite any moderator to remove the message. :) > >>Notably absent was an offer to ship a Pentium III to the playing site. > > Yeah, I believe I suggested he come up with a P3 in an earlier response >as well. But isn't he shooting his sights a little low? I mean, why not demand >a Kryoteched Alpha and some programmers to port Hiarcs to it? It wouldn't take >any more effort on his part! > >>bruce > >What are you showing up with in Paderborn with? You said in some earlier post >that you had developed a parallel search. How many processors will you run? >What kind of speedup do you get? And will the parallelization increase or >decrease your chances at winning the blitz tournament yet again? :-) > >Dave The 767 mhz Alpha was almost exactly 767/533 times faster than the 533 mhz Alpha. A single-processor 450 mhz P2 is about 20% faster than the Alpha 533. So it goes at maybe 640 "Alpha" mhz when running my program. I bet a 500 mhz P3 is just a tiny bit slower than the 767 mhz Alpha. bruce
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