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Subject: Re: Deep Fritz Hardware at BinB

Author: Gian-Carlo Pascutto

Date: 02:46:21 10/16/02

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On October 15, 2002 at 17:18:15, GuyHaworth wrote:

>
>Compaq DL560 8x 900MHz processors - not sure exactly which.
>
>With the hope of not starting a debate about how effective 8 processors are, my
>belief is that they are in effect about 4x as powerful as 1 processor.

This is probably indeed a realistic estimate.

>That's worth 1 ply extra.

More like 2. The branching factor of Fritz is about 2, certainly much less
than 4.

--
GCP



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