Author: John Wentworth
Date: 12:51:31 11/08/98
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On November 08, 1998 at 14:34:00, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On November 08, 1998 at 12:51:19, Christophe Theron wrote: > >>On November 08, 1998 at 08:13:10, John Wentworth wrote: >> >>>10 to 20 years ago there were a lot of chess programs on mainframes and these >>>were competing in the ACM tournaments. All of a sudden they disappeared, cost >>>and the advances in PCs I'am assuming. However, seems like there must be someone >>>out there programming on a mainframe, I mean they are so superior in speed over >>>the PC's it's laughable. Last I heard Deep Blue no longer existed, and someone >>>was working on Socrates, but you never hear of that anymore either. >> >>Socrates is Don Dailey's baby, who post here often. As far as I know Don is >>still working on an "all platform" multiprocessing chess program called >>"CilkChess". Cilk is a parallel oriented language. CilkChess is written in Cilk, >>and so has the ability to be compiled for uni- or multiprocessor platforms. >> >>Unless I am wrong, Don can produce a PC or mainframe version of his program when >>he wants. >> >>Don, please correct me if I missed something. >> >> >> >>> Also, like to know where all the older programs are now, like Belle, Cray >>>Blitz, Nuchess, BEBE etc. Probably been erased or sitting on a shelf somewhere, >>>just curious if anyone knows. >> >>Cray Blitz was written by Bob Hyatt, who post here more than often. I've heard >>that Cray Blitz has not been erased at all, and has even run some long test >>suite recently (less than one year). >> >>Cray Blitz' successor is the well known freeware program Crafty, which is >>discussed here very often. >> >>Bob, your turn to correct me. :) >> >> >> >> Christophe > >Pretty much correct. Cray blitz still exists... but is not being modified >since Crafty was started. I started the "crafty" project after the 1994 ACM >event in Cape May... machine time is *very* difficult to get, there is little >room for the "unexpected" (such as a weather delay or whatever) since the >machines are so tightly scheduled... > >I wearied of the process of setting up machine time every year, dozens of >phone calls, emails, begging, borrowing, etc... > >The Cray's will still blow off any collection of microprocessor-based machines >you'd care to use, but at $60,000,000 they are expensive and difficult to get >hold of. > >I gave up not because the micros were catching up in speed (which they weren't, >not even close) but because the micros are so much easier to get access to... Come on Bob let's Cray Blitz going again. I would love to see it kick some butt. Let's see, if each CCC member took out a $100,000.00 mortgage maybe we buy our own Cray :)
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