Author: Albert Silver
Date: 08:57:44 09/25/01
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On September 25, 2001 at 10:33:49, Slater Wold wrote:
>On September 25, 2001 at 10:31:17, Jonas Cohonas wrote:
>
>>In these times where more and more "regular" people get dual systems, why is it
>>then not standard for chessprograms to run on 1-x amount of processors?
>>
>>Regards
>>Jonas
>
>It is pretty much the standard now. There are only 2 commercial "top sellers"
>that aren't. Chessmaster & Rebel.
Standard? I can only think of 3 commercial programs that support SMP: Deep
Fritz, Deep Junior, and Deep Shredder. Unless they represent the majority of
commercial programs they do not constitute a standard IMO. DF is a special case
as it is not simply an SMP version of Fritz 6, but an upgrade of it. As to the
other two, I somehow doubt their SMP versions outsold their single-cpu versions.
Multi-cpu machines are very far from being the standard, and while they may
certainly be accessible (pricewise) in some countries nowadays, they are a very
very small minority. Most people think in terms of more MHz or GHz as opposed to
more cpus.
Albert
>
>It takes a lot of work to get a program to use SMP, and use it correctly.
>
>
>Slate
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