Actually, (although your mileage may vary!) the Intel processors are often faster. Having run some CFD applications on a POWER3-II (375Mhz) and on an Athlon MP 1600+, the Athlon outperformed the POWER3-II by a factor of 2.3!.
The advantage of the POWER3-II based systems lies in the fact that you can have large SMP systems, large memory access, etc. (It's a 64-bit chip)
Now, the latest RISC from IBM is actually the POWER4... and it boasts some damn impressive SPEC marks. I haven't run on one yet, but from what I hear, I can expect it to be slightly faster than my Athlon 1600+... but with the Athlon MP 2000+ out, and the price difference between that and the POWER4 - well, I like my Athlons.
Ciao!
(PS. Oh, and unfortunately, I have no data on running on an Itanium. But if the commodity chips work so damn well, why bother?)
For 'team' robotic efforts, one resource to check out is Robocup, a world-wide robotic soccer competition.
I don't have any specific references here, but I believe there have been some published papers (as a result of this competition) regarding team coordination and strategies. A good starting search would be the various AI journals.
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Actually, (although your mileage may vary!) the Intel processors are often faster. Having run some CFD applications on a POWER3-II (375Mhz) and on an Athlon MP 1600+, the Athlon outperformed the POWER3-II by a factor of 2.3!.
The advantage of the POWER3-II based systems lies in the fact that you can have large SMP systems, large memory access, etc. (It's a 64-bit chip)
Now, the latest RISC from IBM is actually the POWER4... and it boasts some damn impressive SPEC marks. I haven't run on one yet, but from what I hear, I can expect it to be slightly faster than my Athlon 1600+... but with the Athlon MP 2000+ out, and the price difference between that and the POWER4 - well, I like my Athlons.
Ciao!
(PS. Oh, and unfortunately, I have no data on running on an Itanium. But if the commodity chips work so damn well, why bother?)
... but dammit, they just don't seem to be getting my e-mail! I'm going to start having all my friends send them a few mails as well... *sigh*
Actually, decrypt the article, and you get the secret message of "All your base are belong to Katz!"
:-)
For 'team' robotic efforts, one resource to check out is Robocup, a world-wide robotic soccer competition.
I don't have any specific references here, but I believe there have been some published papers (as a result of this competition) regarding team coordination and strategies. A good starting search would be the various AI journals.
Good luck!