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Subject: Re: Multi processors chess question

Author: Bas Hamstra

Date: 07:17:47 03/05/01

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On March 05, 2001 at 06:13:35, Tony Werten wrote:

>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

I hope this does not mean that you enter the May tourney in Leiden with Deep
XiniX, ie a multi cpu version? Any case I will be there with the same laptop, a
very aggressive Tao en a sharp book. Hope to see you!

(If XiniX goes multi-cpu I suggest you change the name in XiXi!)

:-)





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



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