Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 11:53:56 05/24/99
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On May 24, 1999 at 14:38:03, José de Jesús García Ruvalcaba wrote: >On May 24, 1999 at 14:31:30, Dann Corbit wrote: > >>On May 24, 1999 at 07:12:24, O. Veli wrote: >> >>> Is there a commercial program for Linux? I remember a post here stating that >>>Shredder 3 runs under Linux but have never seen it advertised as such. Are there >>>any master level programs for Linux other than the Crafty? >>> >>>Gens una sumus, >>On a multiple CPU machine, crafty is probably the fastest chess program on >>Linux. In fact, Dr. Hyatt's multiple CPU machine is running Linux (IIRC) and it >>seems to be a world-beater as far as ratings goes. >> >>Since it is already multi-cpu aware, it can harness horsepower that other >>programs can't. Can you imagine Crafty on a Cray/Silcon Graphics T3E fully >>configured? It might possibly be the second strongest chess engine on the >>planet, after Deep Blue. > > Does the T3E support SMP? If so, then I am almost sure that crafty on that >machine is stronger than any generally available chess engine. If not, then you >can get a Sun Enterprise 10000, which I am sure supports SMP. Fastest machines in the world list: http://www.top500.org/top500.list.html Mostly SGI at the top. Since they have many hundreds of processors, they had darn well *better* be able to do SMP or they are really in trouble. ;-)
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