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Subject: Re: Kramnik-Fritz NPS

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 01:48:01 04/14/02

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On April 14, 2002 at 04:40:19, Slater Wold wrote:

>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.

30% panelty is about speed and not anout np's.

Uri



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