Author: Matthew Hull
Date: 13:55:25 12/19/03
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On December 19, 2003 at 16:44:10, Uri Blass wrote: >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. Maybe so, but the original statement did not specify either hardware or economic limitations. Just because the average joe cannot afford a 4-way, 8-way, 16-way, or 32-way does not negate the assertion. After all, this is the CCC where one-dimensional thinking should be both eschewed and discouraged. :)
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