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

Author: Gian-Carlo Pascutto

Date: 22:57:21 07/19/05

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On July 19, 2005 at 17:58:48, Anson T J wrote:

>Or measuring if an engine scales better on an Intel or AMD chip based on the NPS
>given that its the same engine?

I think this is somewhat valid, for pretty much the reason Vincent mentioned:
you won't get a good speedup without good scaling.

>If you would like to do 10+ tests and post the NPS and time-to-depth please be
>my guest. Its a lot more valid, but more to ask for than a simple test with 1
>then 2 threads.

Scaling can also vary from positions to position, 1 position is not enough.

There is no easy and quick way to measure things with deep engines, forget about
that.

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GCP



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