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Subject: Re: Kramnik-Fritz NPS

Author: Slater Wold

Date: 03:18:46 04/14/02

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On April 14, 2002 at 04:48:01, Uri Blass wrote:

>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

If there is a 30% penalty, um, then, you're going to have 30% less NPS.



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