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Subject: Re: Questions on dual machines

Author: Gian-Carlo Pascutto

Date: 17:49:53 11/20/01

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On November 20, 2001 at 15:37:39, Slater Wold wrote:

>On November 20, 2001 at 11:25:50, Gordon Rattray wrote:
>
>>
>>[snip]
>>
>>Thanks for the helpful info!
>>
>>>This is the speedup I see:
>>>
>>>Crafty 1.89x
>>>Junior 7 1.81x
>>>Deep Fritz 1.31x
>>>Deep Shredder 1.81x
>>
>>This is a surprising and disappointing efficiency for Deep Fritz.  So, when
>>playing on ICC, do you consider Deep Junior 7 to be your strongest option?  I'm
>>assuming that if you have, e.g. Gambit Tiger, then Junior's SMP capability will
>>give it a significant edge when using your dual, since GT is non-SMP.
>>
>>Gordon
>
>I thought so too.  Deep Fritz SMP code is broken somewhere.  That's why I
>laughed when I heard it was going to be on an 8-way box.  It would have run like
>crap.  Unless Frans fixed it.

Fritz 7 was doing 900+ knps at the Dutch open on a dual PIII 1Ghz.

It does 450kbps on an Athlon 1000 here, so I assume the parallel speedup
is more close to 1.8 than it is to 1.3.

--
GCP



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