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Subject: Re: Singular Extension Crafties

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 06:55:04 09/09/01

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On September 09, 2001 at 01:49:25, Slater Wold wrote:

>On September 08, 2001 at 23:42:00, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>>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.
>
>Quick quesiton:
>
>Is hyatt@crafty.cis.uab.edu correct?  That's what's listed on your CCC profile.
>But on ICC it's hyatt@cis.uab.edu.  (And that's what you responded with.)
>
>I take it hyatt@cis.uab.edu is the correct one.
>
>Thanks again.
>
>
>Slate


hyatt@cis.uab.edu is better.  If you send it directly to crafty.cis.uab.edu,
then mail can be lost if I am working on the machine.  IE when I upgrade to a
new version of linux, for a couple of hours there is no user "hyatt" on that
machine, which will cause trouble.




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