Author: Albert Silver
Date: 17:13:53 09/25/01
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On September 25, 2001 at 19:34:25, Slater Wold wrote:
>On September 25, 2001 at 11:57:44, Albert Silver wrote:
>
>>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.
>>
>
>How many commercial programs are out there, right now? Not a *whole* lot.
>
>My comment was about, what I consider, the top 5 chess sellers. Which are:
>
>Deep Fritz
>Deep Junior
>Deep Shredder
>Rebel
>Chessmaster
>
>Anyone would have a tough time arguing those aren't the top sellers. And they
>are all SMP except 2.
I'll argue with it. I doubt very much Deep Junior outsells plain ol' Junior. I
also doubt very much that Deep Shredder outsold Shredder. I believe (no numbers
unfortunately) they have sold less than Hiarcs, Tiger, and Nimzo for example. I
am only speaking of the 'Deep' versions and not their single-cpu brothers that
do well. The only exception I can think of _might_ (no numbers unfortunately) be
Deep Fritz as it not only is an SMP version of Fritz 6, but also an improvement
of it.
Albert
>
>I don't believe SMP is the standard at all. Most people I see here post with
>eval's from Deep Fritz, are doing so on single processor machines.
>
>But duals are getting more and more standard. Quake, the best selling PC game
>ever, now supports SMP. That right there should tell you something.
>
>Slate
>
>>
>>
>>
>>>
>>>It takes a lot of work to get a program to use SMP, and use it correctly.
>>>
>>>
>>>Slate
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