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Subject: Re: Questions on dual machines

Author: Slater Wold

Date: 19:01:33 11/20/01

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On November 20, 2001 at 20:49:53, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:

>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

It's a different DF than.  Perhaps Frans got with SMK.  SMK's SMP code did
rather well.  Perhaps it was fixed in DF7.  (Which is NOT out.)  If you'd like
to see, I'd be more than happy to show you.  I've posted it here before.



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