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Subject: Re: Dual Processors vs Athlon 1.33

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 20:28:42 04/18/01

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On April 18, 2001 at 05:37:49, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:

>On April 17, 2001 at 13:04:20, enrico carrisco wrote:
>
>>On April 17, 2001 at 08:58:35, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:
>>
>>>On April 17, 2001 at 00:23:21, enrico carrisco wrote:
>>>
>>>>On April 16, 2001 at 06:59:49, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>On April 14, 2001 at 10:21:35, Frank Wolf wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>My friend and I are in disagreement regarding the seed (for chess) of the
>>>>>>following systems:  Dual P3 at 1GZ with 512 SDRAM vs Athlon 1.33 with 512 SDRAM.
>>>>>>Which is faster and by how much.  Any Fritzmark data out there with these
>>>>>>systems.  He is going to lay down the cash for one of them.
>>>>>
>>>>>for now the dual P3 1Ghz is faster by a large margin of course
>>>>>
>>>>>2x1Ghz = 2Ghz
>>>>>
>>>>I'd love to see the math on this one.  A conservative figure would be 1.7ghz and
>>>>a best case scenario would be 1.8ghz.
>>>>
>>>>-elc.
>>>
>>>2.0 for diep at tournament level.
>>
>>Sorry, I'm not familar with your parallel programming routines in diep.  It
>>would appear, however, that Dr. Hyatt, Amir Ban, Frans Morsch, and Stefan
>>Meyer-Kahlen would have much to learn from you.  Please do expand!
>
>Noop Bob doesn't need to learn a thing, just diep is slower as those
>progs and i'm using a modified Cray Blitz concept, so it's all open
>information. Amazingly i'm the only PC program using it (probably
>because it's so hard to implement, took me a year)!
>
>Do not forget my program searches 15 times slower as Fritz, so overhead
>to parallellism is *way* smaller. A small improvement in branching factor
>and DANG there you have 2.0
>
>Also i'm splitting hardly near the leaves where all recursive programs
>keep on splitting near the leaves. That's the b.f. difference!
>
>Best regards,
>Vincent
>
>
>
>>-elc.


Not all.   I split at the root as well when it is appropriate...  Splitting
there you get _zero_ parallel search overhead.



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