Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 07:12:36 09/26/01
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On September 25, 2001 at 20:13:53, Albert Silver wrote: >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. He didn't say SMP programs were _out-selling_ non-SMP programs. He said that three of the top sellers now _support_ SMP. It isn't hard to figure out why that is the case. SMP is getting cheaper and cheaper. And you can put together a dual that will out-perform any single around, and spend less money if you try. IE compare a dual PIII/1ghz to a PIV 1.5ghz in price and performance. > > 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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