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Subject: Re: A "mystery" with dual core

Author: Gregory Owett

Date: 08:45:57 11/02/05

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On November 02, 2005 at 11:12:38, Uri Blass wrote:

>On November 02, 2005 at 10:57:35, Gregory Owett wrote:
>
>>Recently, I launched two tournaments (ponder off) with the same participants, on
>>two different machines.  Here results:
>>
>>On P4 2.2 T=15'+5" :
>>
>>1. Fruit 2.2.1 KS104     7,5 / 10
>>2. Shredder 9 UCI        5,5
>>3. Shredder 7.04 CLm1    5            25,00
>>4. Fruit 2.2.1 Uri       5            23,00
>>5. Shredder 8 CLD        3,5          17,25
>>6. Fruit 2.2.1           3,5          16,50
>>
>>
>>On AMD x2 dual core 4800+   T=15'+5" :
>>
>>1. Shredder 8 CLD        6,5 / 10
>>2. Fruit 2.2.1 Uri       6
>>3. Fruit 2.2.1 KS104     5            25,75
>>4. Fruit 2.2.1           5            24,25
>>5. Shredder 9 UCI        4,5
>>6. Shredder 7.04 CLm1    3
>>
>>
>>The success of Shredder 8 CLD (UCI) on the dual core machine, confirms what the
>>task manager indicated, i.e. which Shredder 8 CLD, in spite of it is
>>single-threaded engine, used 99% of the two processors, while all the others
>>used 50%, in other words, only one processor.
>
>results may be because of luck so they do not prove nothing.
>The way to check it is to look at the number of nps.
>
>I am also not sure if Shredder is a single threaded engine.
>
>Shredder9 is only for single processor but I remember that at some point of time
>there was no deep shredder and shredder was SMP capable.
>
>>
>>(Native engines, as F8, J9, H9, CT15 etc...use 99% too.)
>
>No by definition they cannot do it because they were not programmed to do it.
>
>Hiarcs and tiger always supported only a single processor so claiming that they
>use more than 50% cannot be correct.
>
>Uri

It is precisely where there is a "mystery", why task manager indicates 99%,
whereas these engines supported only a single processor, as you say.

Gregory



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