Author: Mogens Larsen
Date: 06:23:10 04/16/01
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On April 16, 2001 at 08:19:09, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: >It is not difficult to implement the form of parallellism as used by >Rudolf. Invented by a frenchman who couldn't spell a word english and >who wrote an impossible article for JICCA (did anyone proofread it at >the time as i'm pretty sure they didn't get his parallel idea?). > >At the time when i read the article i was pathetically laughing about it >actually as i also didn't get the idea of the frenchman. But it appears >everyone who can make a chessprogram work under win2000 can also get >within an afternoon his program parallel to work. Then some debugging >and a day later it works cool. How many different types of SMP implementations are there and what are the differences, if any? As a layman I would imagine that are different methods of making it work depending on what you wish to accomplish, ranging from pure speed purposes to a more complicated kind of threading resembling a n-brain system. >Yet i heart rumours that the K7 dual motherboard is going to be like >at least us$ 1000, so that's not encouraging either when it comes out >around oktober 2001 or so (if it gets out anyway as it is getting >announced every month now), so there is not going to be much competition. I find it hard to believe that they're going to be that pricey. Maybe at first, but the competition will bring the price down quite significantly. Is it clear whether the current AMD processors are usable or if a new model is required with less power consumption and maybe less heat emission. >Fact is that one sells very little programs because it is a parallel >version, so hesitation to get parallel is understandable. Also nearly >all home tests, i just have to point to SSDF for example, are done >on single cpu computers. > >Whereas duals are nowadays very affordable when they carry intel logo, >still 4 processors are a bit more expensive. Of course the entire design >of quad motherboards is expensive, but each processor costs like $2000 >or something, for a step in model that is. After my computer crash, I bought a Abit VP-6 dual board with one CPU :-). Mainly because it would be easy to upgrade, ie. buying the second one and overclocking later on. If the AMD dual board price is correct then I'm glad that I didn't decide to wait and buy a cheap single cpu system as temporary replacement. Regards, Mogens
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