I use my bottom of the line laptop to run chessbase, and fritz. Nothing special, nothing fancy, it just works. I cant see spending thousands on a computer to run a chess engine for 48 hours, to get a difference of .02 in a position.
New Multicore CPUs (e.g. Threadripper with 16 Cores) and Chess Engines
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Do you chess engines in general benefit from multicore CPUs?
I assume solving chess positions is a good problem for parallel computing, since each branch/variation in the evaluation tree can be computed on a separate core and not much inter-core communication is needed?
This is especially interesting, since there are finally new developments in the CPU market after AMD returned with competitive CPUs and Intel has a competitor. Suddenly 16 cores (Threadripper) are on the market and affordable for normal user...