Author: Tom Kerrigan
Date: 20:29:13 07/21/00
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On July 21, 2000 at 22:16:29, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On July 21, 2000 at 19:30:04, Tom Kerrigan wrote: > >>On July 21, 2000 at 16:48:29, Robert Hyatt wrote: >> >>>On July 21, 2000 at 15:00:18, Tom Kerrigan wrote: >>> >>>>This thread is going nowhere fast. I don't agree with anything you say, but it >>>>would be a waste of my time to explain why. But here are two quick comments that >>>>will hopefully make you feel incredibly stupid. >>>>-Tom >>>> >>>> >>>>On July 21, 2000 at 10:13:00, Robert Hyatt wrote: >>>> >>>>>Sure I am. Should I tell you when the first SMP PC came along? Of course, >>>> >>>>Yes, please do tell me when the first SMP PC came along. Because I distinctly >>>>remember reading computer magazines when I was ~10 years old, and they >>>>advertised SMP 386 computers. And that was a long, long time before Crafty. >>>> >>>>>>Just face it, you didn't invent SMP PC chess programs. If you think I'd believe >>>>>>that crap, you might as well start telling me that you invented the Internet. >>>>>I never said I did. I did write the first shared memory parallel search that >>>> >>>>Har. Actually, you did say it. Direct quote: >>>>"With plenty of innovations from rotated bitmaps to being >>>>the first SMP (PC) program running..." >>>> >>>>Or did you mean that other SMP PC programs didn't run? They all seg faulted? >>>> >>>>-Tom >>> >>> >>>Name the SMP PC program. I've never heard of one. To date, I know of the >>>following: (in order of their creation I think): >> >>I already named Zugzwang. True, Zug is a message passing program, but that >>doesn't contradict the fact that it was running on an SMP computer and utilizing >>all the processors. If by SMP program you really mean, "utilizes all the >>processors the way Bob Hyatt thinks they should be utilized," then perhaps you >>should start saying that. > >SMP search is a different animal than distributed search, in any book you This is absurd. Did you just coin the term "SMP search" to win this argument? Please give the URL of some paper with this term in it. SMP is a type of computer. You might as well say that you also invented "486 search." Either a search is distributed over multiple processors or it isn't. Granted, some implementations fit particular hardware better than others, but to disqualify a program for that is crazy. Imagine this conversation: Tom: Is Zugzwang SMP? Feldmann: No, it just searches using all the processors in an SMP machine. -Tom
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