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

Author: Chessfun

Date: 21:01:15 04/25/01

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On April 25, 2001 at 23:32:01, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>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.

Frank has been running this CCE tourney for months.
He is running it on a dual computer.

This is not a SMP crafty as far as I know nor is it meant to be.
All programs have identical hardware a single cpu.

Sarah.






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