Author: Uri Blass
Date: 06:13:03 06/02/04
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On June 02, 2004 at 09:00:53, Ricardo Gibert wrote: >On June 02, 2004 at 08:40:55, Uri Blass wrote: > >>I plan to buy a cheap computer with 2 processors dual PIII1000 Mhz for testing. >>I will probably also buy more expensive computer for WCCC with one processor >>when I may use the cheap computer for testing with ponder on. >> >> >>I still did not buy it and before buying it I have a question. >> >>The question is if I can tell the program which processor to use or tell the >>program to choose automatically one of them when I have no control about it. >> >>Another question is if I can be sure that the processors are of equal speed(if >>they are not of equal speed then the question which processor the program is >>using may be important. >> >>Can I be sure that one 1 Ghz is not 1.01ghz when the second 1ghz is 0.99 ghz? >> >>Uri > >This would make make one processor a little over 1.02 times faster for a less 3 >elo advantage if it assumed that each doubling of speed is worth 100 elo. To >resolve such a difference in your testing would require an obscene number of >games. In other words, it's not relevant. I agree that it is not a big difference but if there is a simple way to avoid noise it is better to do it and I prefer to be able to control the processor that the program is using so I do not care about difference in speed when I always use processor A for movei and processor B for the opponents. Uri
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