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Subject: Re: Parallel search development on a single processor machine ?

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 07:48:57 08/21/99

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On August 21, 1999 at 06:13:53, Rémi Coulom wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I plan to buy new hardware soon, and I hesitate about buying a multiprocessor
>motherboard. I would like to try parallel search algorithms for The Crazy Bishop
>and I wonder if it possible to experiment them with multiple threads on a single
>processor. From the little experience of parallel programming I have, I guess
>that there are some problems that could arise when two threads are running on
>two processors simultaneously that would not arise when they run in different
>time slices on the same processor. I would like to know what more experienced
>parallel searchers think.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Remi

It is doable.  But you won't ever complete the debugging until you get on a
real SMP machine.  However, if you have a linux compatible program, I'd be happy
to let you run on my quad P6/200 on occasion to test or even play on ICC for
reasonable periods of time...



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