Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 17:49:52 07/29/98
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On July 29, 1998 at 06:23:44, Don Dailey wrote: >On July 28, 1998 at 23:43:08, Steffen Jakob wrote: > >>Hi all! >> >>Definitely it's a good idea to support multiprocessor machines like crafty is >>doing. But, most people don't have computers with >1 CPU. More often they have >>access (at least at night :-) to >1 computers. Therefore my question: did >>anybody make experiments with chess programs and PVM? >> >>Greetings, >>Steffen. > >But anyone can develop a parallel program on a single processor >machine. At some point you need a real parallel machine to tune >it up though. But you can get realistic numbers for things like >amount of extra work and so on, which is where I do a lot of my >tuning. With Cilk you just specifiy number of processors and >it doesn't really matter how many you actually have. It may be >this way with other systems too, I don't know. > >- Don certainly works this way with threads and unix... (and threads under NT as well)..
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