Author: Anthony Cozzie
Date: 10:52:49 07/27/04
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On July 27, 2004 at 11:17:39, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On July 27, 2004 at 10:09:32, Derek Paquette wrote: > >>On July 27, 2004 at 04:32:36, Andreas Guettinger wrote: >> >>>IBM is working on a dual core version of the PPC970FX, the PPC970MP, which will >>>be released somewhere in 2005, as they say. >>> >>>http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1627893,00.asp >>> >>>regards >>>Andy >> >>What does this mean to really really really dumb people like me ? :) > > >About 7-8 years ago when I did the parallel search for Crafty, many said "why? >that will only apply to special-purpose machines and not mainstream computing." > >I replied that within a few years, _every_ machine will have two or more >processors. This is the beginning of that prophesy. In another few years all >programs will either be parallel or "loser". :) Perhaps that is a bit extreme :) There really aren't that many parallel programs out there: The Baron (dual only), Crafty, Diep, Fritz, Junior, Sjeng, Shredder, SOS, Zappa (very little testing) And I think that is it, although I may have missed one or two. So even the most generous estimate gives only 9-10, while a more conservative estimate would give only 7. From my experience, going parallel is pretty hard even when you _do_ have a dual machine (although very interesting, and in my opinion quite rewarding: I think think parallelizing a chess program is one of the most difficult programming tasks out there). anthony
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