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Subject: Re: Shredder 8 - Multiprocessor system

Author: Geert van der Wulp

Date: 07:39:13 03/05/04

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On March 05, 2004 at 10:35:49, Bob Durrett wrote:

>On March 05, 2004 at 10:12:04, Albert Silver wrote:
>
>>On March 05, 2004 at 09:37:44, Richard Patterson wrote:
>>
>>>Hello, it has been a while since I have posted. Here is an update, I am now
>>>running a Dual Athlon 2800+ mp's with 1gb of ram. My question is when I run Deep
>>>Fritz 8 I get about 2,400 KN/s but my Shredder 8 program is only getting about
>>>800 KN/s. I look know both processors are running at 100% when either chess
>>>program is running. Why the difference? Thanks :)  Richard
>>
>>You can't compare the NPS of one program with another. The real question is how
>>many NPS does Shredder 8 reach with only one CPU on your system?
>>
>>                                        Albert
>
>Truly, it does appear that something is wrong.  There is not THAT much
>difference between Fritz and Shredder on my single processor machine.
>
>Perhaps there is yet another bug in Shredder!  Maybe Shredder only uses one
>processor, or maybe Shredder becomes "confused" by the presence of the other
>processor.
>
>I don't think it's fair to hand wave this away as "just one of those things."
>
>Bob D.

Hmmmm, I read somewhere that there is no DEEP Shredder because ... Shredder is
already capable of using multiple processors! Strange.

Geert



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