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Subject: Re: I will like to see Crafty running on 8 cpu's !!!!

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 09:49:49 04/18/01

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On April 18, 2001 at 07:31:06, Aaron Tay wrote:
[snip]
>The answer is simple of course, the organisers consider Crafty too weak to take
>part..

You might remember the last CCC match, where professional and amateur games met
for a big contest.  Crafty won.  Crafty ran on an SMP system.  Crafty is
designed from stem to stern to run on multiple CPU's.  All the recent "deep
this" and "deep that" programs are recent conversions.  There are going to be
bugs associated with such efforts, and things left out.  I strongly suspect that
the strongest program + system is not entered in the contest.  Be that as it
may, your supposition about feelings may be correct.  However, the feelings were
misdirected.

It is interesting, also that Vincent shows some sort of strange superlinear
speedup.  This might not be just some chance phenomenon.  I would like to see
what Diep can do on 8 CPU's.

The SSDF testing is (of course) completely useless for the purposes of this
contest [in deciding which programs are strong/weak/whatever].  All the tests
were performed on a single CPU machine, and therefore have no bearing on
multiple CPU performance.




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