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Subject: Re: Dual or Quad

Author: Steve Maughan

Date: 05:22:01 03/27/00

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Takashi,

>I would like to know which is faster for SMP chess programs such as Deep Junior
>and crafty
>
>Dual Petium 800MHZ= 1600MHZ or
>Quad Xeon 400MHZ= 1600MHZ
>
>Give me some other recommendations as well.

It is always better to have fewer processors for a given MHz.  This is because
each processor has a setup cost and in addition has a potential for the search
results to be redundant.  Both of these factors increase with the number of
processors.

To answer the question directly the Dual Pentium 800 MHz will be better.

Regards,

Steve Maughan



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