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Subject: Re: Kramnik-Fritz NPS

Author: Bernhard Bauer

Date: 01:25:20 04/13/02

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On April 12, 2002 at 18:33:16, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:

>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%.
>
>Little correction: what I was talking about wasn't pure NPS, since
>that doesn't say anything in a parallel search, but the speedup.
>
>You can use a 1000-way system, get 1000 times the NPS and not go
>a single precent faster.
>
>--
>GCP

That's right. 8 CPU's give about 8-times the nps of a single CPU system.
Bernhard



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