Author: Bas Hamstra
Date: 11:19:02 07/10/01
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On July 10, 2001 at 11:52:38, Bruce Moreland wrote: >On July 10, 2001 at 02:46:24, Tony Werten wrote: > >>>What if I had bought a computer for this last week? Suddenly I get there and >>>I'm not competitive because I assumed, with a month left, that it was a >>>single-processor event. >> >>I have to disagree. Last year multiprocessors machines were not banished from >>the event. The just had to show they were only using one processor.( Diep and >>Junior if I remember correctly ) >> >>If your program benefits from multiprocessor and you want to play at tournaments >>and you then buy a single processor, then your choice was wrong. > >I don't understand this. In my house I have a 550 mhz P3. I have a Quad 450 >Xeon. The first is not competitive, the second is too big to consider taking on >an airplane again. > >The event has been a single-processor event. If I had ordered a computer last >week, a single-processor machine, because this is a single-processor event, I >would have potentially spent a lot of money on an uncompetitive machine. > >>Second, for most people the difference between a single and a multiprocessor >>does not make the difference between being competitive or not. It's the same >>discussion every year before such an event. Program A is going to win because >>the processor is 50% faster than program B. It's just not true, as is shown >>every year after the event. Of course, faster (or more) processors help. But not >>that much. > >This is bull. You ask what Chessbase is going to bring. You ask what everyone >is going to bring. All the commercials will be on the hottest stuff they can >find, and it does matter a whole lot. > >People spend months trying to scrape 10% performance out of their engine, and >yet a speed factor of 2 or 3 doesn't matter? No. Exactly. Of course it matters. And they made it not easy for you guys, agreed. I still hope you will come. I have to pay a couple of hunderd bucks to apply, where is that money going anyway? IMO part of it should be used to finance the tickets... Bas.
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