Author: Peter Berger
Date: 08:38:31 07/14/04
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On July 14, 2004 at 11:26:47, Omid David Tabibi wrote: >On July 14, 2004 at 11:12:14, Fernando Villegas wrote: > >>Not at all, Omid >>If you already have a parallel engine you should run it into a hardware capable >>of getting all its power. > >I understand that you are going to provide the hardware, right? > >It is not something personal; next year I will have the needed hardware, but >what about others? Deep Sjeng and ParSOS were also parallel engines, but ran on >single processor not because they thought it was better, but because they did >not have access to a fast multiprocessor machine. > I wonder what except the results changed from two weeks ago to now to make you imply this is an unfair event and go on raving about it ?! Weren't you even one of the organizers? The multi-processor entries got the first 5 places in the tournament - this was partly unexpected by some, probably including you. Had you been aware of it before the event you probably would have tried to get better hardware in case your engine can use it successfully. Every other answer is a bit hard to believe for me. Peter
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