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Subject: Re: Singular Extension Crafties

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 20:42:00 09/08/01

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On September 08, 2001 at 17:42:44, Slater Wold wrote:

>On September 08, 2001 at 09:42:42, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>>On September 08, 2001 at 06:40:41, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:
>>
>>>On September 08, 2001 at 06:35:24, Dann Corbit wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>The ones with BM in the name are modelled after Bruce Moreland ideas. From my
>>>>testing, these versions do better than any of the others (including crafty
>>>>without extensions).
>>>
>>>What tests did you run?
>>>
>>>What did you change?
>>>
>>>How did you get SMP to work?
>>>
>>>--
>>>GCP
>>
>>
>>He might not have noticed that "searchmp" has to be modified to make this
>>work reliably.  The last time I fiddled with this stuff, all the changes
>>were in search.c...  this means that if the program splits the tree into
>>parallel pieces at a ply that should be "singular" then it will behave
>>differently than it should...
>>
>>Dann:
>>
>>If you are convinced that this is really working reasonably on a single-cpu
>>machine, let me know and let me know where the source is located.  I will see
>>if I can fix it up so that it will work correctly in a parallel machine as
>>well...
>
>I would _LOVE_ to see an SMP Crafty with SE.  I e-mailed you about it over a
>week ago, and didn't get a response.  :(
>
>
>Slate


If I didn't respond, I didn't receive the email.  I generally respond to an
email within 24 hours at worst case.

We have occasional email glitches (spool fills up.  Student hacked into the
machine and removed entire mail queue a couple of weeks ago.  Etc).  If I
don't respond quickly, it is always worth another query.



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