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Subject: Re: How well do today's "Deep" engines scale?

Author: Vincent Diepeveen

Date: 15:29:16 07/19/05

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On July 19, 2005 at 15:04:38, Joachim Rang wrote:

Joachim, there are 2 important things in parallel search:
  a) scaling
  b) speedup

First important goal is good scaling. At big supercomputers, assuming you use
YBW as the parallel algorithm, your ONLY goal is a good scaling.

Vincent

>
>>
>>Please post the nodes per second for 1 and more threads obtained when searching
>>the below position for around 60 seconds.
>
>nodes per second? There is no worse indicator how well a program scale than
>nodes per second. It is easy to achieve perfect scalablity by simply letting all
>threads calculating the same.
>
>To measure scalability one has to invest quite an effort. The Hydra-Team does it
>with a special testsuites which take about 24hours to run. The cheap approach
>would be:
>
>Take 10 positions and note the timetodpth for depth say 18. Than calculate the
>average timetodept18 and compare.
>
>Even that approach is not perfect since a 18ply-search on a single processor has
>a different quality than on a dual.
>
>regards Joachim



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