Hi Remi, ask Robert Houdini, the leading chess programmer. He might be interesting in the same question - and might have some expert opinion/advice for you.
http://www.cruxis.com/chess/houdini.htm Cheers, Ingo. -------- Original-Nachricht -------- > Datum: Fri, 11 Jan 2013 21:07:59 +0100 > Von: "Rémi Coulom" <remi.cou...@free.fr> > An: computer-go@dvandva.org > Betreff: [Computer-go] Hardware advice > Hi, > > We are considering investing into some high-end tournament hardware for > Crazy Stone. It has to be a single machine. > > Right now, I am considering a server such as this one: > http://www.thinkmate.com/System/RAX_QS5-4410 > With 4 x Sixteen-Core AMD Opteron™ Model 6386 SE (2.8 GHz) > > It seems that Intel alternatives with a similar price are much less > powerful. Is there anything I am missing? > > I checked that the clock efficiency of our Intel server is 1.4 better than > our AMD bulldozer. I expect that hyperthreading does not help very much > because of scalability problems, but I am not so sure. > > Any recommendation would be welcome. > > Thanks, > > Rémi > _______________________________________________ > Computer-go mailing list > Computer-go@dvandva.org > http://dvandva.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/computer-go _______________________________________________ Computer-go mailing list Computer-go@dvandva.org http://dvandva.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/computer-go
