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

Author: Frank Quisinsky

Date: 10:42:13 04/26/01

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On April 26, 2001 at 08:42:41, Uri Blass wrote:

>On April 26, 2001 at 06:44:14, Frank Quisinsky wrote:
>
>>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.
>>
>>Hi Bob,
>>
>>since the latest Chess-Base "Native" versions of Crafty it is possible to set
>>under Engine options "Thread = 1 or 2" on dual machines. Default = Thread 2 on
>>Dual Machines. So I mus adjust Thread = 1 for Engine - Engine matches.
>>
>>Here I made a big mistake and forget to adjust Thread = 1 :-(
>>Christian Koch see this (not enough np/s for Chess Tiger in the games where I
>>have yesterday here posted).
>>
>>Sorry, I must replayed the games.
>>
>>BTW:
>>Thanks to Chessfun for his comments.
>
>Correction:
>her comments and not his comments
>
>Uri
>>
>>Best
>>Frank

Hi Uri,

yes ... sorry !

Best
Frank



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