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Subject: Re: Amazing results by Zappa. Does anyone know what are the innovations?

Author: Andreas Guettinger

Date: 11:05:40 11/13/05

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On November 13, 2005 at 14:03:52, Andreas Guettinger wrote:

>On November 13, 2005 at 13:44:44, Uri Blass wrote:
>
>>On November 13, 2005 at 13:34:27, Peter Wolff wrote:
>>
>>>On November 13, 2005 at 13:27:57, steve j s joyce wrote:
>>>
>>>>Hi all,
>>>>
>>>>   Zappa has clearly been having very strong results.  Does anyone know the
>>>>innovations that are being used, or is better hardware the key?
>>>>
>>>>Regards,
>>>>Steve
>>>
>>>
>>>Zappa does appear to be very, very strong, but exactly how strong it is will be
>>>seen only when it's released to the general public and can be tested under equal
>>>conditions (either as a single cpu version or a multi-processor version, playing
>>>other engines that are not handicapped by lack of strong HW).
>>>
>>>It seems that Zappa's release is imminent though :-)
>>>
>>>My prediction is that it will have to do much better than in the short events
>>>such as the WCCC or Leiden to show that's better than Deep Shredder on a fast
>>>dual or quad box, or even stronger than the new SMP Gandalf, for that matter.
>>>Not to mention the new kid on the block which is getting ready to go SMP,
>>>Fruit...
>>>
>>>In any case, we will soon be having lots of fun :-)
>>
>>I do not think that fruit is ready to go SMP
>>
>>I understand that Fabien plans to do it SMP only in spring 2006 and this mean
>>half year from now and today there are other things that are planned earlier
>>like backward analysis capability and weak levels.
>
>If Fabien has a decent SMP version already in Spring 2006 then he is very fast
>in implementing SMP because this means _major_ changes to the engine.

And it would also mean that there may be a SMP version for WCCC06!!

Andy




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