Author: Gian-Carlo Pascutto
Date: 00:04:51 09/02/05
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On September 01, 2005 at 14:58:04, Volker Böhm wrote: >Hi GCP, > >it is not a secret that a program running on 8 CPU is not 8 times faster than a >program running on one cpu, even if the amount of nodes/s seems to look like >that. >But that does not mean, that - assuming a good parallelisation algorihm - every >processor is adding speed. > >On hydra we know that the last two plys including q-search and eval is done by >hardware very fast. Thus even if there is only one CPU running it will at least >searching severals plys deeper without any parallelisation drawback than an >equivalent software program. > >So I don´t know what bullshit you are talking about. > >Greetings Volker The hardware search is not equivalent to a software search. It's impossible to obtain than with their resources. The same is true for the evaluation. I have no reason to believe it's any better, than for example Deep Blue's was. The only thing I see is blabla they're fast but in fact such a comparison in speeds is meaningless. -- GCP
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