Author: Daniel Pineo
Date: 14:19:15 04/23/05
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On April 22, 2005 at 21:27:22, Tony Petters wrote: >I hope they force every program to use one CPU with an equal amount of RAM, >otherwise, the games are not even ! > >Does anyone disagree with this ? > >Is HYDRA going to play with all 32 processors ? Why not just have a few hardware classes? Open class: any hardware allowed SMP class: multi-processor/multi-core hardware allowed, but no specialized chess hardware Single core class: only single core processors allowed The idea isn't necessarily to make everything _perfectly_ even, but to just give the lightweights a place to compete. Like in boxing, not all boxers in a weight class need to have _exactly_ the same weight, but they are close enough where talent, and not brute strength, play the dominant factor. Also, as a consumer looking to buy a program for a single processor home computer, this kind of comparison will be more useful than knowing that hydra, or a 16 SMP version of shredder won.
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