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Subject: Re: The slow pokes ranked 1 and 2 after 5 rounds.

Author: Eugene Nalimov

Date: 16:25:01 06/17/99

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On June 17, 1999 at 19:20:35, Jeremiah Penery wrote:

>On June 17, 1999 at 19:08:59, Mark Young wrote:
>
>>As impressive as 1,000,000+ nodes a second sounds for the multi-CPU programs.
>>The two programs on the slowest machines are winning the tournament so far. How
>>big a surprise is it that Hiarcs and Shredder are winning the tournament after 5
>>rounds on just one PIII chip. (If you can call one PIII chip slow)
>
>Actually, I think DarkThought may be on the slowest machine (Alpha 500MHz, which
>supposedly scales to something like P350(?)).  I was surprised it didn't run on
>at least a 767...(And it's *really* too bad Bob couldn't get a hold of that 16
>processor Alpha machine for them in time...I think DarkThought would be
>extremely difficult at best for any opponent with a machine like that. :)
>
>Jeremiah

Based on my experience, 21164 Alpha/533 is roughly equivalent to PII/400. But I
beleive Ernst uses 21264, and it is much faster than 21164 at the same clock
speed.

Eugene



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