I use 8 cores on Linux with no real issues. The 16  cpu¹s that are consumer
level right now are the i7¹s which appear as an OS as double the number of
physical cores. Two dual quadcore i7¹s with hyperthreading on a QPI bus
appear as 16 cores to the OS (with proper support). My opinion is this. If
there is a bug with 2 threads it likely exists with threads > 2. I have had
great success for both rollouts and normal analysis on an 8 core system and
running with 16 threads . I have found that setting threads to double the
cores works well. 

Prior to the last release the limit was 16. In anticipation of people using
newer i7¹s I upped the maximum thread count to 48 which is available in the
current build:

http://www.gnubg.org/media/windows/gnubg-MAIN-20090904-setup.exe

This release ups the maximum thread count, fixes the cache problem on plies
> 3 and fixes an issue with matches 32 pts and higher when using a cache
greater than zero. There were other minor fixes as well.

Time will tell on how well Gnubg scales on a large number of processors.

On 08/09/09 1:04 AM, "[email protected]"
<[email protected]> wrote:

> I saw a cpu with 16 threads IIRC. Are there more than this available does
> anyone now?
> What's the most threads gnubg can handle?
> What's the highest bug free threads at the moment?
> Thanks
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