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Subject: Re: CRITIC about YERMOLINSKY - HIARCS7 MATCH !!!! please look here.

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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