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Subject: Re: How are dual cores going to affect chess?

Author: Jason Kent

Date: 05:31:27 01/29/05

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On January 29, 2005 at 08:28:11, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:

>On January 29, 2005 at 08:20:07, Jason Kent wrote:
>
>Your machine will look like a dual machine. The OS doesn't know better than that
>it is 2 processor machine.
>
>>It looks like by the third quarter of this year, both intel and amd will be
>>selling dual cores.  Are they basically handled as two processors under task
>>manager, and software?  I'm guessing this is going mean that to get the most out
>>of your cpu, you will have to buy all the Deep versions.  Maybe that is why SMK
>>decided to seperate the programs?
>>Jason
>
>I won't comment on SMK, nor on chessbase, but it's obvious that if the intel CEO
>says that intel will produce ONLY dual core cpu's within a year and nearly
>nothing else, that only parallel software will work for you.
>
>Paying extra for something that just uses a normal single cpu, is a very bad
>thing. It means basically you have normally spoken a crippled software program,
>as > 90% of all cpu's will be dual core.
>
>Vincent

It sounds like there will be plenty of programming needed to fix all of the
current software to make it SMP compatible.  Since I will be coming out of
school in another year or so, hopefully it will be easy to find work. :D



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