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Subject: Re: Speedup?

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 21:09:12 09/05/02

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On September 05, 2002 at 23:12:00, Slater Wold wrote:
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>It *always* takes more nodes to solve a problem using more than 1 CPU, than it
>does using just 1 CPU.

That is very surprising.  I suspect that a wider search will show that this does
not always hold up.  It would be pretty astonishing if it did.

>It *always* takes less time to solve a problem using more than 1 CPU, than it
>does using just 1 CPU.

This seems like it should be true.

>And that would be more/less what I am trying to "coorelate" here; Nodes To Solve
>vs Time To Solve.

What does solve mean?  Do the programs always have identical depth (including
fractional plies) and identical ce?  If not then the searches are different and
comparision is mostly guessing.



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