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Subject: Re: A "mystery" with dual core

Author: Gregory Owett

Date: 11:46:35 11/02/05

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On November 02, 2005 at 14:19:43, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:

>On November 02, 2005 at 12:08:31, Gregory Owett wrote:
>
>>On November 02, 2005 at 11:19:49, Gian-Carlo Pascutto 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,
>>>
>>>Shredder 8 is, as far as I know, a multiprocessing-capable engine.
>>>
>>>--
>>>GCP
>>
>>That would be a very good news!  :-)  Thus all these engines:  fritz, shredder,
>>hiarcs,...were multiprocessing-capable.  The established classification would be
>>upset on dual core machines.
>
>Fritz and Hiarcs are not multiprocessing capable. Only the Deep versions are.
>Hiarcs doesn't have a Deep version.
>
>Old Shredder versions were, essentially, both single and dual versions at the
>same time, but Stefan stopped doing this in Shredder 9.
>
>So, Shredder 8 is multiprocessor capable, but Shredder 9 is not, you need Deep
>Shredder 9 instead.
>
>--
>GCP

Then, how you explain, that for Fritz and Hiarcs the taskmgr indicates 99% when
they are pondering?

Gregory



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