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

Author: Eugene Nalimov

Date: 10:20:12 09/26/01

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If you have Pentium IV, you *already* have CPU capable of executing 2 threads
simultaneously. It has all the necessary circuits. They are just disabled in the
current CPUs.

Eugene

On September 26, 2001 at 10:44:54, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:

>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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