Author: Bruce Moreland
Date: 12:40:40 09/17/99
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On September 17, 1999 at 02:49:06, Dave Gomboc wrote: >Exactly how much benefit will be derived from serial chess programs running on a >quad-cpu Primergy server? "Infinitesimal" is the word that comes to mind. Even >if it were true, it hardly matters from a _performance_ standpoint, which makes >the alleged request rather odd, wouldn't you say? Those were 550's, I think. That's nothing to sneeze at. But having everyone run on a quad box would be terrible overkill for those who weren't multiprocessor enabled. I heard a story that there was one amateur there who had a multiprocessor enabled version, asked Siemens before the tournament for a machine, and this request was denied due to contractual obligations. bruce
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