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Subject: Re: Dual Xeon 2.8 GHz, Crafty 19.09 bench, cann't understand it (part 1)

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 20:28:21 01/14/04

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On January 14, 2004 at 17:28:24, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:

>On January 14, 2004 at 17:13:04, Frank Quisinsky wrote:
>
>>Shortly:
>>If I read your answer ...
>>That's means that I can set on Dual Xeon for SMP Eng - SMP Eng with ponder
>>_not_ MT=2 ?!
>
>You cannot in any case.
>
>You only have 2 *real* CPUs, remember?
>
>>Right is (if I understand):
>>SMP Eng - SMP Eng with ponder ... I have to set MT=1 and I have to set
>>Hyper-Threading under Windows XP SP1 = off ?!
>
>Yes.
>
>>Under Windows 2003 Server:
>>SMP Eng - SMP Eng with ponder ... I have to set MT=2 and I can set
>>Hyper-Threading = on !?
>
>No.
>
>You can set HT=on, but you can never play two SMP engines against
>each other with pondering on, unless you tell them to only use 1 CPU.
>
>--
>GCP


ACtually two programs both using mt=2 would work OK with pondering on.  I run
that test all the time here...

Has a flaw when one program is idle, of course...



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