Author: William Bryant
Date: 17:18:31 07/28/00
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On July 28, 2000 at 13:05:04, Ian Osgood wrote: >On a related note, has anyone compiled a Mac version of Crafty SMP to take >advantage of the new dual-processor G4 boxen? > >If I were to undertake such a project, from which version should I start? What >are the areas which would need the most work? Are the SMP portions relatively >cross platform? > >Can anyone compare Apple's G4 SMP architecture with Intel's SMP architecture? > >One last question, probably asked before: has anyone investigated the use of the >G4 vector processing unit for chess processing? > >Thanks in advance... > >Ian I would love to see a SMP version of Crafty for the new dual G4 machines. I haven't seen any documentation of the SMP interface, but I would guess it is going to be based on the Unix SMP interface since OS X is based the BSD microkernal. Let me know what you find out. I don't know if OS 9 supports SMP. Does anyone else know? On a related note: When I get rich, I plan to get all the back issues of ICCA Journal and get a dual G4 machine and convert Screamer or Ad_Hoc to SMP (with a lot of help from my friends). :) By then, I hope the clock speed of the G4's is faster than 500 mhz. William wbryant@ix.netcom.com
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