Author: Enrique Irazoqui
Date: 15:47:37 11/14/00
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On November 14, 2000 at 12:16:20, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On November 13, 2000 at 17:24:16, Christophe Theron wrote: > >>On November 13, 2000 at 15:27:41, Marc van Hal wrote: >> >>>On November 13, 2000 at 14:58:59, Bob Durrett wrote: >>> >>>>Today, the wealthy or lucky have multiprocessor computers and can use the new >>>>programs being discussed here. But is this a precursor to a major advance in >>>>home computers anytime soon? When? >>>> >>>>I just recently purchased a 1 GHz single-processor PC. Generally, I plan to >>>>replace my computer after about five years, or maybe sooner if there is a big >>>>difference sooner. >>>> >>>>So, to pick a specific date, how about five years from now, 2000 + 5 = 2005 ? >>>> >>>>Will multiprocessor PCs then be commonplace on the consumer market, priced so >>>>the ordinary person can afford them? More importantly, what will the chess >>>>software look like then? >>>> >>>>For example: Will the chess programs for multiprocessor PC computers be >>>>designed to perform different tasks or functions on the different processors, or >>>>will the processors just be "bunched together" to make the computer look like a >>>>really fast single-processor computer? >>>> >>>>Also: Do the current crop of chess engines use the processors for different >>>>tasks? >>>> >>>>Answers or speculations "are hereby solicited." >>> >>>For the same money you purchased your 1gig cpu and board you could have bought a >>>celeron multiproccesor motherboard with 2 x 500Mhz >> >> >> >>Which would perform worse at chess (and probably at anything else) than the 1GHz >>computer he has just bought. >> >> >> >> >> >>>But ok it is treu that buying this kind of hardware is extremely expensive for >>>the comon man >>>I doubt that in the future more programs will use multiprossecor tasks but what >>>you do see is that all the hardware gets it's own prossecor like video and audio >>>card and so on >>>It also is not so that if you use 2 x 1gig cpu on a multi poccesor you get a >>>speed of 2 gigs so not as fast as a single cpu computer of 2 gigs >> >> >> >>That's right. >> >> >>I don't think multiprocessor computers will be the norm in the future. The trend >>in personal computing is going in another direction. >> >>Have a look at: >> http://dailynews.yahoo.com/htx/nm/20001113/tc/comdex_microsoft_dc_1.html >> >> >> >> Christophe > > >You have said this before. Yet it directly contradicts what I see happening >at both Dell and Gateway. They are selling _many_ dual-processor machines. >Not to mention the dual-cpu motherboard market which is continually strapped >for parts due to demand. This may apply to the US, but not to Europe, or at least not to Spain. It is true that here I see more and more ads about duals and quads from HP, IBM and Siemens, but directed exclusively to enterprises. Nobody I know has a dual, and the shop that has been building mine, the biggest shop in the province, had no experience at all about them, which by the way doesn't make me feel very confident. I have no idea about what is the future in computers and I wonder if anybody has it. In my case it was a rather simple decision. If I wanted to play comp-comp I had 2 options: 2 fast single machines or a fast dual for the same money. The dual will do the same for comp-comp, but it will be faster for other things, so... And now for what I always wanted to know and I never dared to ask: what does SMP stand for? Enrique
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