Author: J. Wesley Cleveland
Date: 16:22:13 03/28/01
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On March 28, 2001 at 10:20:14, Christophe Theron wrote: [snip] >And it is clear for me that multiprocessor computers will not be the mainstream >in the foreseeable future. An idea I have been reading about is Simultaneous Multi-Threading (SMT). This allows one processor to schedule instructions from different threads simultaneously. Compaq has announced this for the alpha ev8 and there are rumors that Intel will also use SMT. If this becomes standard, single threaded chess programs will be at a noticeable disadvantage.
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