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Subject: Re: question about deep fritz

Author: Slater Wold

Date: 07:48:09 11/27/01

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On November 26, 2001 at 18:02:52, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:

>On November 26, 2001 at 14:24:56, Slater Wold wrote:
>
>shredder gets poor speedup here. don't know about what it gets there.
>here it's like 1.2 to 1.7 real bad considering it forward prunes.

In several tests I've ran, it's almost always 1.8x.

And this was a test of about 40 positions.

>
>>On November 26, 2001 at 13:00:19, K. Burcham wrote:
>>
>>>On November 26, 2001 at 11:43:48, Jonas Cohonas wrote:
>>>
>>>>On November 26, 2001 at 07:32:56, K. Burcham wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>anyone know how to enable smp support for deep fritz.
>>>>>my deep junior will use both processors, but i cant get
>>>>>deep fritz to run on both processors. deep fritz is using only
>>>>>one processor on my dual machine.
>>>>>
>>>>>thanks
>>>>>kburcham
>>>>
>>>>Go to "load engine" highlight Deep Fritz choose "engine parameters"
>>>>and under "number of threads" set it to 2
>>>>
>>>>Regards
>>>>Jonas
>>>
>>>for some reason, this is not making a difference.
>>>i have tried, changing number of threads to one  and also to two.
>>>with number of threads on two it is the same kns. about 1400 kns.
>>>deep junior will run about 2200 kns (not deep junior seven)
>>>bios shows both mp processors on boot up.
>>>windows 2000 pro  os.
>>>i think i will format and reload all, and then try again.
>>>
>>>thanks
>>>kburcham
>>
>>#1.  DF sucks at SMP.  I don't care what _ANYONE_ says.  I have the proof.  Your
>>speedup on DF is going to be VERY small, if ANY at all.  I've said this on here
>>100 times.
>>
>>#2.  Use Crafty or Shredder.  They are the best SMP'ers.  DJ is also a fine
>>tester.  See what kind of speedup you get with them.
>>
>>#3.  Look at your task manager, and look at CPU usage.  100% is both CPU's.  50%
>>is 1.  Don't expect to see 200%.



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