Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 07:20:14 03/28/01
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On March 28, 2001 at 03:41:09, Victor Zakharov wrote:
>On March 27, 2001 at 21:55:10, Christophe Theron wrote:
>
>>On March 27, 2001 at 21:23:05, enrico carrisco wrote:
>>
>>>> ... snip ...
>>>>The real problem here is that Christophe tries to defend the statement
>>>>that duals are not worth buying, which is essential the same statement as
>>>>saying that buying a faster single cpu is not worth buying!
>>>>
>>>
>>>I don't think that is what Christophe was saying at all - he was just pointing
>>>out what someone choosing to buy such a system for ICS play can expect. If
>>>their only purpose is to attempt to crush everyone on the chess servers - good
>>>luck & they are wasting their money.
>>>
>>>-elc.
>>
>>
>>Exactly. Thanks.
>
>There is another idea here too. Christophe considers that implementing support
>of multiprocessing into search algorithm is not so essential for chess programs
>as a lot of people could think. May be it is better to spend this time for chess
>algorithms and get these ELO-points in another way. And I am agree with this.
>
>Victor
My first intention was simply to figure out what was a dual worth really.
I did these computations for myself, then decided to publish it because I think
it's good informations for the CCC forum.
It is true that I believe that adding chess knowledge in a program is more
interesting than making a program SMP, and that there is more evolution
potential in working on chess knowledge.
And it is clear for me that multiprocessor computers will not be the mainstream
in the foreseeable future.
I know that some will disagree, I can even guess who.
These people are just ignoring facts of society like Internet mobile phones,
PDAs, tablet PCs and the like.
Christophe
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