Author: Paulo Soares
Date: 18:27:35 07/05/99
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On July 05, 1999 at 14:04:25, KarinsDad wrote: >On July 04, 1999 at 12:20:33, James T. Walker wrote: > >[snip] >> >>Hello KarinsDad, >>The number of processores Fritz is playing on is pure speculation. > >I decided to look it up. From the Siemens press release page: > >http://www.siemens.de/computer/news/index.htm > >http://194.121.239.192/cgi-bin/db4web_c.exe/db/pressedb/icp_user/en/pm_einzeln.d4w?pm_id=552 > >"To really make the most of its strengths Fritz needs a powerful computer: >processor performance, RAM, high-speed hard disks – that's what matters. And >that's precisely where the most powerful NT Server from Siemens has a lot to >offer. The Primergy 870 that will take on Anand will incorporate four of the >fastest Pentium III-Xeon processors available then. Distributing the arithmetic >functions amongst a number of processors makes Fritz much, much faster." > >So, it looks like it is using 4 processors. > >KarinsDad :) In http://www.chessbase.com/News/newsframe.htm is writed this: "The current version of Fritz calculates one million positions a second" This is not so much, because in my PII-300, Fritz5.32 runs between 200.000 and 400.000 NPS. Paulo Soares, from Brazil
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