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Subject: Re: Kramnik-Fritz NPS

Author: Slater Wold

Date: 16:09:40 04/12/02

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On April 12, 2002 at 18:31:09, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:

>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%.

30%?  Who got 30%?  I've never seen more than 5% on my SMP systems. (My Dual AMD
1.4Ghz or 1.53Ghz.)

I've even got a *very* funny position where Deep Fritz 6 is slower than Fritz 6
in a position.  (That is DF using 2 CPUs and F6 using just 1.)

>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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