Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 08:25:13 09/24/01
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On September 24, 2001 at 09:55:10, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote: >On September 24, 2001 at 09:02:45, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>Exactly the point. That was _the_ reason Cray chose to support us for >>so long. Easy way to get their name in most every computer publication on >>the planet, once a year or so... >> >>And yes, they charged a fortune for a machine that sold for around $60 >>million 10-20 years ago. > >The difference is that you _won_ those tournaments. Look again. We started on the Cray in 1980. We won the 1983 WCCC. We won the 1984 ACM event. HiTech beat us in the 1985 ACM event. We Won the 1986 WCCC event. We didn't win any events after that due to Deep Thought. Yet we played on a Cray through 1995 and probably could still play today if the ACM events had not dropped away and then Crafty coming along... > >Last time I looked, the StarSocrates/Cilkchess guy's weren't >doing all that great vs. the top commercials, and I'd think >more or less the same would apply to crafty even if it were >running on a 20Mnps Alpha. I'd happily take my chances running on that machine. I don't do that badly running on normal hardware. > >Speed is nice, but isn't everything. It's certainly not >enough to ensure winning nowadays. Depends. If you have a superior _real NPS_ speed, and your program is not horrible in its evaluation, it will have its chances. > >-- >GCP
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