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Subject: Re: I have made an error ...

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 20:32:01 04/25/01

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On April 25, 2001 at 15:49:58, Frank Quisinsky wrote:

>Hi there,
>
>I gave Crafty 2 CPUs, see the np/s from Chess Tiger.
>The games will be replayed.
>
>:-((
>Frank live ...
>I forgot to adjust "Thread = 1" in the options from Crafty :-(
>
>Best
>Frank


Ugh.. if that is on a dual, it will kill my program.  I get two threads
going, tiger has a third, and that is bad.  It is quite possible that I
was searching nothing much at all in some cases.

The problem is that one thread might be sitting on a spinlock and running
while the other thread is not executing due to Tiger.  That is just wasting
the second cpu.  Crafty's parallel search _absolutely_ must have 100% of all
the processors you use it on... or it will die horribly.

It doesn't like 'shared machines' for the parallel search.  _ever_.  It isn't
harmful for the serial search of course.  But for the parallel search, it is
awful.



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