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It sounds like a lot of fun. What are you going to do with it? With an Alpha Beta engine there are questions about its ability to use 32 cores. Do NNs use 32 cores? What about getting a 16 core using Hyper threading and save some money. Threadrippers come with 64x PCIe lanes, so you can run 4x GPUs...

I play that in blitz games if I don't care if I win or not.

It sounds like a lot of fun. What are you going to do with it? With an Alpha Beta engine there are questions about its ability to use 32 cores. Do NNs use 32 cores? What about getting a 16 core using Hyper threading and save some money.

I wonder who is paying the cost of doing this. I haven't read the whole postings yet.

Does anyone think its a hoax?

Thanks Graham.

How do you download the engine? I cant find it. Its not in the src.

I wonder when Zen 2 will be readily available, 3900X is almost impossible to get, 3950x is still not announced, and the processors that are released have trouble to reach the specified turbo speed. As ususal it is drama with AMD, I'm not an Intel fan whatsoever, but if Intel delivers 'Cascade Lake ...

I think previous Epycs were only 64 cores. I didn't know they were making a 128 core version now. What does it mean for computer chess? The AMD 7742 has 64 cores, and with certain models, they can be run in a "dual socket" server or workstation, meaning two AMD 7742 processors with 64 cores each on...

I think previous Epycs were only 64 cores. I didn't know they were making a 128 core version now. What does it mean for computer chess?