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Subject: Re: Bebe and Belle

Author: Eelco de Groot

Date: 01:21:31 10/06/99

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Robert, Eugene, what does prevent Crafty of adopting the better search of Cray
Blitz? I understand there are big architectural differences but what do you
think would be the main factor?

Thanks for any comments,

Eelco


On October 06, 1999 at 01:43:31, Eugene Nalimov wrote:

>464 will have multithreading on chip. That will help Crafty even more, as that
>will help to mask L2 cache/memory latencies...
>
>Eugene
>
>On October 06, 1999 at 01:41:14, Dann Corbit wrote:
>
>>On October 06, 1999 at 01:02:29, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>>[snip]
>>>Probably...  although the search of Cray Blitz is better (selective stuff on the
>>>end, plus singular extensions and some chess-specific threat extensions as
>>>well).  But a 16 cpu 21264 could easily hit 16M nodes per second...
>>
>>COMPAQ (The artist formerly known as DEC) makes a 32 CPU version.
>>
>>I keep thinking of what it could do with that many 21464's.



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