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Subject: Re: Kramnik-Fritz NPS

Author: Gian-Carlo Pascutto

Date: 15:31:09 04/12/02

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On April 12, 2002 at 18:07:26, bob o wrote:

>2.I read somewhere that a 2 CPU machine would give an 80% increase in NPS. Does
>this mean that there are diminishing returns with each extra CPU?

Yes.

What's even more worrying is that the latest public SMP Fritz
(Deep Fritz) only had an increase of 30% with an extra CPU,
not 80%.

They better had improved that 'little problem' since then or
there's gonna be little point in using an 8-way system!

--
GCP



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