Author: Eugene Nalimov
Date: 20:12:57 09/11/99
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I beleive the most powerful "off the shelf" SMP x86 system is 8 CPU Xeon system that uses Intel Profusion chipset. That chipset was described in Microprocessor Report ~2 months ago. Eugene On September 11, 1999 at 22:14:44, Robert Hyatt wrote: >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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