Author: José de Jesús García Ruvalcaba
Date: 15:29:54 05/28/99
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On May 28, 1999 at 15:08:15, Dann Corbit wrote: >On May 27, 1999 at 07:58:40, Robert Hyatt wrote: >[snip] >>here I disagree strongly. The Digital Alpha will run away from the K6 >>chip. And the alpha machines are readily available in "PC" type boxes >>(Bruce has had one from Polywell for at least a couple of years, and the >>incredibly fast '264' processors are available. >The 264 will run away from a K7. The only general purpose processor in the same >class is the Russian ELBRUS chip (which may or may not even exist but is >certainly very impressive on paper). Just wait until you see the specs for the >Alpha/COMPAQ 364! 1.5MB integrated L2 cache with 16GB/s read-write bandwidth! >70 SpecInt95 (est) & 120 SpecFp95 (est)! They have special features for SMP >also. > >If Hsu enters next year, they will have to have three categories. >0. Hsu (they can start polishing the brass now, I think). >1. Supercomputers >2. Microcomputers > The World Computer Chess Championship is every three years (and this one is four years after the previous one). It is very unlikely that Hsu enters next year (I do not think he is allowed to enter the micro championship held every year). >The purpose of the WCCC & WMCCC is to find out what the best chess machine you >can put together is. I don't think a level playing field can be created. If >you were to specify (for instance) a 500 MHz K6 or something, then what about >Macintosh programs? There is really no clean solution in such a manner. So >just let 'em rip with whatever they can throw together and see who is left >standing when the dust clears. There can always be great surprises.
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