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Subject: Re: How Many NPS Is Quest (Fritz) Claiming At Maastricht?

Author: Miguel A. Ballicora

Date: 15:39:21 08/21/01

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On August 21, 2001 at 17:33:45, Graham Laight wrote:

>At last year's WMCCC, Fritz was showing an average of about 900,000 NPS (from my
>observations).
>
>This year, I would guess that the number is close to 2 million (they're using
>duel 1.2 Ghz processors).
>
>If my guess is correct (could someone at Maastricht confirm this, please?), then
>the estimates of 5-6 million NPS with 8 processors against Kramnik will probably
>not be far out.

But in SMP program NPS do not mean much. Of course, you will have 2x NPS in
a dual but the efficiency could be 1.7x or something different.
Someone programming SMP programns correct me if I am wrong.

Regards,
Miguel


>
>Thanks for any help from Maastricht on this.
>
>-g



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