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Subject: Re: Tiger SMP: why ?

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 09:30:28 05/02/01

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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.
>
>So why exclude a single processor program that has proven to be capable of
>beating multi processor programs ?
>
>cheers,
>
>Tony


Because the SMP programs are _stronger_.  Simple math.  Just take Fritz
vs Fritz  5 times faster to understand.  That is what SMP means when you
have 8 cpus.



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