Author: Bo Persson
Date: 12:36:46 01/07/02
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On January 07, 2002 at 10:40:42, Bas Hamstra wrote: >>>Possible, but complicated. A good compromise is IMO what they do in Paderborn: >>>the organization aranges all hardware, and you can for instance chose P3-700 >>>single or P3-700 double for your program. Nothing is perfect, but pretty fair >>>I would say! >>> >>>For tournaments in which we have to bring our own hardware we are in a vicious >>>circle. Since everybody is bringing the fastest hardware on the market, I have >>>to too. Why not end that, and set a speed limit. Everybody can arrange an old >>>laptop, very convenient, and we could compete in fairness forever. >>> >>>Best regards, >>>Bas. >> >>I support this idea totally, but I know that other programmers are afraid of >>competing with equal weapons. > >Not too many, I bet. As far as I know only Bob seriously defends the viewpoint >that this would be unfair to multi CPU programmers. See, now you are already arguing about *what* uniform platform to use. :-) I'm sure Bob would be very satisifed with 32xAlpha or Cray T90 as the common hardware. Bo Persson bop2@telia.com
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