Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 19:14:44 09/11/99
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On September 11, 1999 at 20:19:52, Eugene Nalimov wrote: >On September 11, 1999 at 20:05:14, Dave Gomboc wrote: > >>On September 11, 1999 at 19:50:11, Eugene Nalimov wrote: >> >>>On September 11, 1999 at 16:07:47, odell hall wrote: >>> >>>>On September 11, 1999 at 15:27:43, Robert Hyatt wrote: >>>> >>>>>On September 11, 1999 at 14:05:12, Leon Stancliff wrote: >>>>> >>>>>>Robert, >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> I have been speculating for a long time on what would take place in a match >>>>>>between the top ten computer programs running on easily available machines and >>>>>>the top ten chess players in the USA. >>>>>> >>>>>> I have been playing my Hiarcs 7 program on a Macintosh G3 at 275 Mhz. It plays >>>>>>almost even with both Data and Singacrafty on ICC. >>>>>> >>>>>> I have assembled the following list of computer programs from such sources as >>>>>>the SSDF list and the Selective Search list. In your opinion, would Data, >>>>>>Singacrafty or Crafty deserve a position in this list? >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> Hiarcs 7.32 >>>>>> >>>>>> Fritz 5.32 >>>>>> >>>>>> Chessmaster 6000 >>>>>> >>>>>> Nimzo 99 >>>>>> >>>>>> Chess Tiger 11.8.2 >>>>>> >>>>>> Junior 5 >>>>>> >>>>>> Rebel 10 >>>>>> >>>>>> Shredder 3 >>>>>> >>>>>> Genius 5 >>>>>> >>>>>> MChess Pro 7 >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> Let's assume that each is running at about 550 Mhz on a single CPU. >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> MChess Pro 7 >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>I wouldn't venture a guess. If you put crafty on a quad xeon 550, it can beat >>>>>_any_ of those programs. On equal hardware I really don't know as I don't play >>>>>on 'equal' hardware. :) >>>> >>>> >>>> Oh yes!, i would love to see the results of crafty verses the top programs on >>>>equal hardware, It would be interesting to see how it would measure up. >>> >>>Ok, I think the right "equal hardware" should be 16-CPU Alpha 21264. Or (if it >>>happenes that some programs will not run on Alpha), a 8-CPU Xeon. >>> >>>Eugene >> >>Sounds good to me! :-) >> >>Do Intel Paragons consist of x86 chips? >> >>Dave > >I beleive it's not SMP platform. > >Eugene Correct. It is a mesh-connected message passing system. Each node has 5 processors, and four bi-directional communication channels (100mbytes/sec I think, but am not certain). IE PVM/DCE/MPI/CLINDA/CILK/etc would work on it, but there is _no_ shared memory.
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