Author: Russell Reagan
Date: 03:12:18 11/09/04
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On November 09, 2004 at 04:38:36, Daniel Shawul wrote: > This is a very bad news! chances of me getting a dual right now is 0%. >So i think i will discard this plan for now. It isn't so bad. If you get it working correctly on a single CPU machine, you'll be farther along by the time you get a dual (though the hard part is yet to come). A dual CPU machine isn't necessarily expensive. I took the parts from my old computer (it was my current computer at the time) and just bought a cheap dual motherboard and a second CPU. I think it cost less than $100 to turn my PIII 733 MHz into a dual machine. Old parts are cheap if you can find them. Probably, if you ask on a hardware message board, someone can recommend some old, cheap components that are still available. Sites like Ebay are good for that too. I definitely wouldn't recommend buying the latest hardware for your first dual if your main use for it is adding multiprocessor support to your chess program. You could spend quite a while learning threaded programming and the parallel versions of serial tree search algorithms. Just get something cheap to practice on. You can add multiprocessor support just as easily on a dual 500MHz as you can on a dual Opteron. It's definitely a long term addition to your chess program. Read this. http://chessprogramming.org/cccsearch/ccc.php?art_id=311817 You've been warned :)
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