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Subject: Re: Kramnik-Fritz NPS

Author: Tony Werten

Date: 00:04:03 04/13/02

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

They did. I spoke with Frans about this during the Paderborn tournement. There
were some problems with the cache in an Athlon. It should be solved now.

Tony

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>--
>GCP



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