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Subject: Re: hyper-threading at dual xeon 2.8Ghz

Author: Matt Taylor

Date: 22:38:55 02/22/03

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On February 23, 2003 at 00:39:34, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On February 22, 2003 at 02:54:21, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:
>
>>On February 21, 2003 at 19:49:04, David Weber wrote:
>>
>>>what chess programs support hyper-threading
>>
>>DIEP, Crafty, Fritz.
>>
>>for fritz it speeds up 10% node count at 4 threads at a dual Xeon 2.8Ghz
>>(compared to HT turned off and 2 threads), but chessbase didn't test yet whether
>>it actually speeds up search depth (according to Mathias who operates fritz
>>here).
>>for shredder it does speed up the node counts but not search depth
>>so it has SMT/HT turned off here at this tournament and runs with 2 threads at a
>>dual Xeon 2.8Ghz here.
>
>
>Did you make the necessary changes to spinlocks and spinwaits???

Sorry, can't resist a good laugh!

"No, they're not out yet!"

:-)

-Matt



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