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Subject: Re: What's the difference between NUMA, SMP and MPI for chess?

Author: Renze Steenhuisen

Date: 05:42:27 04/15/04

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On April 15, 2004 at 06:30:14, Joachim Rang wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I read in the past of some differences between multiprocessor-Architectures
>between NUMA and SMP. Now I heard of something called MPI? Can enybody enlighten
>me what are the differences between this multiprocessor-Architectures(please not
>too technical) and what the main advantages/disadvantages for Chessengines?
>
>thanks in advance

NUMA - Non-Uniform Memory Access
SMP  - Symmetric Multiprocessing

MPI  - Message Passing Interface

I think it says it all?



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