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Subject: Re: Why is SMP not standard in chessprograms?

Author: Vincent Diepeveen

Date: 07:44:54 09/26/01

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On September 25, 2001 at 14:06:14, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On September 25, 2001 at 12:58:00, Kurt Utzinger wrote:
>
>>On September 25, 2001 at 11:57:44, Albert Silver wrote:
>>
>>>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
>>
>>I fully agree with this statement. There is no question of Multi-CPU machines
>>being standard. Most people have PC with single CPU and I cannot imagine that
>>this "standard" will change in the next few years.
>>Regards
>>Kurt
>
>
>Hold on to your hat.  I'd expect that within the next _five_ years you will
>see single chips with two processors on them.  _that_ will change the way
>computing looks, once and for all...

I don't doubt that that is the future, more processors onto a single
chip, but i doubt whether in 5 years we will be able to affort such
processor blocks.

Let's bet on safe and say 50 years instead of 5 ...





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