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Subject: Re: Crafty and NUMA

Author: Mridul Muralidharan

Date: 08:43:15 08/29/03

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Hi,

  Crafty has not been designed to run on numa - the current version will choke
as number of processors increase.
The way search is getting split , memory and cache affinity , etc will have to
be taken into account. Also it may have to stop using threads and move towards
processes.
These maybe the basic changes - so as you can see - huge rewrite that "may"
degrade perf on non-numa machines.

Mridul

On August 29, 2003 at 11:31:37, Matthew Hull wrote:

>How large an effort is it to tweak Crafty to run efficiently on NUMA machines?
>
>Would such modification negatively affect it's performance on non-NUMA SMP
>machines?
>
>MH



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