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Subject: Re: Multi processors chess question

Author: Tony Werten

Date: 03:13:35 03/05/01

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On March 05, 2001 at 03:07:09, Pham Minh Tri wrote:

>Hi all,
>
>If a chess program runs on a computer with N processors, how many times is it
>faster? N times? (compare with the same computer with 1 processor)

It's N times faster. Unfortunately it's doing some things double and can't
completely use all the knowledge gained from the search of the other processors.

The best "effective speedup" I've seen is about 3 for 4 processors.

cheers,

Tony

>
>Just a curious question because I have no computer with multiprocessor nor
>supercomputer :-(



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