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Subject: Re: One more post on Ruffian 2.0 (scalability)

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 13:44:10 12/19/03

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On December 19, 2003 at 16:20:32, Matthew Hull wrote:

>On December 19, 2003 at 06:21:26, Djordje Vidanovic wrote:
>
>>As I had been away from my computer for a while, I only read the long threads
>>regarding Ruffian 2.0 last night.  I feel obliged to give some new information
>>regarding the thread and the advertisement in which Ruffian 2.0 is labelled as
>>the strongest Winboard engine available.
>
>If one does not ingore scalability features, Crafty is the strongest Winboard
>engine available, and potentially, depending on the hardware, the strongest
>engine available, period.
>
>[snip]

On what hardware?

Shredder also can use more than one processor and I do not know if Crafty can
beat Ruffian2.00 even if both are using the best machine that they can use.

How much speed improvement can crafty get from parallel search relative to the
fastest single processor?

I think that for users the main question is how much speed improvement can
Crafty get in their system from parallel search and the answer for most of them
is that Ruffian2.00 is simply better because most of the users of more than 1
processor do not use more than 2 processors.

Uri



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