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Subject: Re: DEEP BLUES AVERAGE PLY?

Author: Gian-Carlo Pascutto

Date: 15:31:05 08/21/02

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On August 21, 2002 at 17:55:44, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>It doesn't change _that_ much on the last 3-4-5-6 searches.  At least it
>doesn't for me in the results from Cray Blitz on 16 and 32 cpus...

32 on shared memory is a far cry from 480 in a 3 layer system

>Once
>those two programs get to the 1-2 second mark, the cpus stay busy, period.
>Just like Crafty.  I don't believe DB had any such problem either, once
>you get beyond the first search result they outputted for a iteration...
>
>You could test your hypothesis however, by seeing if the first couple
>of branching factors are worse than the last couple for each search...
>If they are similar, this isn't a problem...
>
>I might try this tonight late, for one log file...

I doesn't work. You have two unknowns (NPS and BF) and one equation (the data).

You can't infer both.

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GCP



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