Author: KarinsDad
Date: 10:58:52 07/05/99
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On July 04, 1999 at 12:20:33, James T. Walker wrote: >On July 01, 1999 at 17:23:03, KarinsDad wrote: > >>On July 01, 1999 at 16:50:59, odell hall wrote: >> >>> >>>On July 01, 1999 at 15:21:02, James Robertson wrote: >>> >>>>On July 01, 1999 at 13:43:04, odell hall wrote: >>>> >>>>>This is a weird newgroup, !! The Biggest event in computer chess history just >>>>>took place, yet everyone is silent!! Wake up people! Promgrammers should be >>>>>celebrating at their achievement. I am not even a programmer but I am excited. >>>> >>>>G/25. And there is no World Championship at G/25. And we cannot deduce how Fritz >>>>would fare against Kasparov, Anand, or Kramnik; they are all 50-150 points >>>>higher than the masters. And not a SINGLE world championship finalist is playing >>>>in the masters division! >>>> >>>>James >>> >>> >>> Ok james I hear what you are saying! But you have to admit this is quite a >>>sensational result for fritz, something that cannot be ingored, when >>>consideredring the strength of programs at this time control. >> >>The following is what Fritz is playing on. Since Siemens is sponsering the >>event, you can bet that it is the top end of this and not the bottom end. If so, >>8 processors will make this tougher than the Fritz that played at Paderborn >>(which I believe was on 4 processors). If you take that into account, it is >>probably equilvalent to running Fritz on a single processor system at about G150 >>instead of G25. Effectively, the increases in speed due to the multi-processor >>systems give the programs more "time" to search, and so they are effectively >>playing at slower tournament times (relative to those same programs on single >>processor systems). No wonder Fritz is dropping the GMs. >> >> >> >>System board >>Microprocessor Intel Pentium II Xeon >>PRIMERGY 870-40 max. 4 processors, >>PRIMERGY 870-80 max. 8 processors (from end of 98) >>Data width 64-bit internal and external >>Clock rate cache-bus/host bus 400/100, 450/100 MHz >>Second-level cache integrated 512 Kbyte, 1 Mbyte or >>2 Mbyte (ab 450 MHz) with ECC >>RAM with EDC 128 Mbyte to max. 8 Gbyte >>Flash-EPROM BIOS update with FD or LAN possible >> ><snip> >>KarinsDad :) > >Hello KarinsDad, >The number of processores Fritz is playing on is pure speculation. This is true. However, it is playing on a PRIMERGY 870 which defaults to 4 processors, so four is probably a fair assumption. KarinsDad :) It was more >than a year ago that Fritz played on a dual processor system but the number of >processors it's using this year seems to be a big secret. I have asked around >but so far no answers. Also, it looks like Fritz may have a bug in the >multiprocessor operation. The move vs Topalov 63. a7 was a definite blunder. >It turned a victory into a draw. Since 63 Re8 saves the win and my Fritz 5.32 >plays it instantly and never lets go I must assume it's either a bug in Fritz 6 >parallel code or some of the new "Knowledge" they gave it is faulty. So, in my >opinion the parallel version of Fritz6 is still in developement stages and not >ready. In spite of this it's performance is impressive. >Jim Walker
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