Author: Ian Kennedy
Date: 04:30:18 04/24/99
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On April 24, 1999 at 03:21:29, Bruce Moreland wrote: > >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 If you look at the specint95 marks which I think are reasonably useful (as benchmarks go!) for chess programs, they both (PIII/500, Kryotech 767) score around 23. However don't forget the 21264 is a lot faster, 27 at 500Mhz and 30 specint95 at the latest 575Mhz. They also have much more sensible on-chip cache sizes of 2x64k instead of the diddly 8k primary cache of the 21164 which preduces phenomenal cache miss rates on my program PSYCHO. Ian Kennedy
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