Author: Tony Werten
Date: 03:34:13 05/01/01
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On May 01, 2001 at 04:53:49, Uri Blass wrote: >On May 01, 2001 at 04:33:28, Tony Werten wrote: > >>It's already a long discussion but one thing is unclear to me. >> >>Why does GT have to be smp to participate in the challenge for Kramnik >>tournament ? Last dutch championship Fritz participated on a dual machine and >>finished third. Tiger won the tournament with 2 points more, the King (also >>single processor) finished second. > >Yes but Fritz used a dual and not a 8 processor machine. There isn't a program that makes efficient use of 8 processors. If they're lucky the get a speedup of 4, 2 processors gives 1.7, not a big difference. Even more, afaik they are not playing on a 8 processormachine right now. > >> >>So why exclude a single processor program that has proven to be capable of >>beating multi processor programs ? > >Single processor program is capable pf beating multi processor in one game but >the difference between programs is not so big that it can be better than 8 >processor machine in a long match. > >Another point is that the sponsors want to support multi processor system so >they cannot use single processor programs for that purpose. That's the point I don't get. Somebody should have told them about the silly discussion that appear every year with the worldchampionships. Program A will win because it uses 700 Mhz and program B only uses 550. Tiger ( and Shredder btw ) has proven to beat multiprocessor programs. It's about the quality of the program, not the Mhz is uses. Else Zugzwang would have won more tournaments. Tony > > >Uri
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