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Richard Walsh rbw at ahpcrc.orgMon May 20 06:57:23 PDT 2002
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Ricky Rankin wrote: >Is the that fact that most of their codes require double >precision floating point another indicator to move in the >direction of the usual suspects of 64bit chips. No. The Pentium 4 fully supports double precision (64 bit) floating point arithmetic. Your issue is with the address space/instructions which is/are limits to 32-bits per process (minus space for the operating system and other miscellany). rbw
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