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Subject: Re: Kramnik-Fritz NPS

Author: Slater Wold

Date: 01:40:19 04/14/02

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On April 13, 2002 at 04:25:20, Bernhard Bauer wrote:

>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


Hell no that isn't right.  There is at LEAST a 30% penalty for SMP on an 8-way
box.



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