Author: gerold daniels
Date: 04:53:28 11/14/05
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On November 13, 2005 at 14:47:19, Zappa wrote: >On November 13, 2005 at 14:12:28, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote: > >>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. >> >>Naah. It takes about 2-3 months of *fulltime* work. >> >>The question is if Fabien is working fulltime on it or not. Last time I talked >>to him, he was! >> >>-- >>GCP > >I think it depends a lot on how aggressive you are: > >Global lock or not >Iterative search or not >Work stealing approach or something simpler like Aphid/ABDADA etc > >Something on the low end is probably a few weekends of work, and it will give >pretty reasonable results on a small number of processors (say 1.5 / 2 or >something). Fabien is a good programmer, and I have no doubt he'll manage. > >anthony Hello Anthony. Nice win by Zappa. A lot of talk about your program going comm. Will you be selling it? Will you use your own GUI and distribute It Yourself ? Good luck,Gerold.
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