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

Author: Jeremiah Penery

Date: 18:53:18 06/17/99

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On June 17, 1999 at 19:25:01, Eugene Nalimov wrote:

>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

Ok...That sounds a lot better. :)  Still, it's one of the slowest machines
there. :|

Jeremiah



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