Author: Omid David Tabibi
Date: 09:11:31 07/14/04
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On July 14, 2004 at 12:06:35, José Carlos wrote: >On July 14, 2004 at 11:41:04, Omid David Tabibi wrote: > >>On July 14, 2004 at 11:38:31, Peter Berger wrote: >> >>>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? >> >>Yes, and I complained loudly about it even before the event. > > It doesn't make sense to organize something you complain about. Either ask >_before_ that it is a WMCCC this year or don't organize something you're >against. I'm glad that we organized it, and am very happy that it took place successfully. I'm of course not against it, but simply say that there is room for improvement. > Your problem is that you said here that Falcon only loses consistently to >Shredder and now you need an excuse. But you needn't, actually. Just accept WCCC >is not a measure of strength but just a party for programmers and teams and try >to prove your strength in more scientifically tests like SSDF. > > José C. > > >>> >>>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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