Author: Amir Ban
Date: 15:41:55 04/27/98
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On April 27, 1998 at 16:30:34, Rajen Gupta wrote: >Dear Bob > >Which would be stronger-Crafty playing on a Single Pentium 400 MHZ >System vs Crafty playing on a dual processor system consisting of 2 >Pentium 200MMX(or Pentium Pro 200 x2)ie does a single processor system >running at N megahertz play better chess than a dual processor system >running on 2 xN/2 processors? > >rajen gupta That is trivially true. To see this, consider that the faster processor can divide its time to simulate a two-processor algortihm. Practically, there is always significant waste of processor time when doing parallel processing for alpha-beta. What is the best efficiency achieved yet ? Amir
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