Author: Vincent Lejeune
Date: 16:26:40 06/13/99
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On June 13, 1999 at 19:02:18, Howard Exner wrote: >Here's a request about the different hardware that will be used >at the upcoming WCCC. Once the hardware is listed for each program >could some kind soul sort it out in terms of chess computational strength. >The single processor variety of Intel and AMD I'm ok with but >have no clue on the Quad Xeon. How does a Quad Xeon compare to >a p3-500 for chess speed? Could someone also put into perspective how much >faster the big hardware(Cilkchess for example) is compared to the single >processors? A Pentium Xeon processor is about 10 % faster than Pentium for chess programs (at same frequency) It's not easy to estimate the power of Quad because it depend on quality of parallelisation of the algorithm ... Quad can produce between 2.5x and 3.5x speed up
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