Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 13:12:00 10/08/02
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On October 08, 2002 at 15:00:52, Yen Art Tham wrote: >On October 08, 2002 at 14:05:59, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>On October 08, 2002 at 13:54:16, Rex wrote: >> >>>Can someone show me just 1 thats ONE example where this 8 CPU FRITZ program >>>gained an advantage over lets say a single cpu in this GM ver Comp match. >>> >>>I believe the dual/8 cpu is hog wash and just makes the program not play >>>stronger but rather widens the TREE search wider/faster which causes the >>>efficiency to decrease. >> >> >>We've all posted plenty of results showing that two processors are faster than >>one by a >>significant amount. >> >>I can post some results if you want, but there is little doubt that two >>processors are better >>than one, by a significant amount, if all run at the same clock speed... > > >Just curious, if both a single and a dual gets the same nps, >would they be equally strong or if one has an advantage over >the other? >Are there any games to prove one way or the other? > >yat I don't know the answer to that. I've never seen a dual and single cpu machine get the same NPS if the processors are the same speed. The dual should be near to 2x faster with respect to raw nodes-per-second, and somewhere in the range 1.5-2.0 times faster in terms of time needed to get to a specific search depth.
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