Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 17:32:15 02/06/02
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On February 06, 2002 at 20:30:11, walter irvin wrote: >i was thinking of the best way to use 8 cpu's > >move >1 cpu #1 >2 >3 cpu #2 >4 >5 cpu #3 >6 >7 cpu #4 >8 >9 cpu #5 >10 >11 cpu #6 >12 >13 cpu #7 >14 >15 cpu #8 >16 >ect >ect > >with cpu #2 cutting off cpu #1 pv if bad , cpu #3 cutting off cpu #2 pv if bad >ect ect > >because i dont believe that an 8 cpu pc would see 8 ply deeper , this way i >believe it would ,to me this is better than splitting the problem at the root . for sure, an 8 CPY machine won't see 8 plies deeper than a 1 CPU machine given the same time. If you have a branching factor of 3, then you will probably see 1.5 plies deeper, given some SMP loss.
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