Author: Omid David Tabibi
Date: 09:44:51 07/28/04
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On July 27, 2004 at 13:52:49, Anthony Cozzie wrote: >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) Initial results -- after only a few days of testing -- with parallel Falcon (multiprocessing) show pretty good results on dual machine. Now I have to see how it works on a quad... > >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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