Author: Keith Evans
Date: 15:02:10 04/23/05
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On April 23, 2005 at 11:09:05, Tony Petters wrote: >On April 23, 2005 at 11:01:50, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>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 ? >> >> >>What single CPU? Intel? AMD? 32 bit or 64 bit? Power PC? etc. Who gets to >>choose "the processor". If you let people use different processors it is not >>"equal". >> >>The wccc is about the best "chess player", not about "the best chess player >>using equal hardware." > >I think Hyattian theory is flawed on this point. The owner of the software can >choose, which single CPU to use. Do you recall Ed Schroeder tested AMD verus >Intel for Rebel several years ago using benchmarks. Crafty may prefer the AMD >64 bit CPU. There will always be SOME variance between. > >However, let's think about what is happening here: > >Shredder 9 on a dual or quad VERSUS Hydra on 32 high-end CPUs > >Hardly, what I would call an even match, to the point of why even bother having >it other than some cheap form of entertaiment. > >Hydra alias Nimzo may not even break the top 10 at SSDF on their test hardware. > >Cordially So you would prefer to see the quality of the chess suffer? And discourage authors from trying to get their creations to play the best chess possible? Hydra is one of the more interesting recent developments in my opinion, because it's not all about just writing some uniprocessing C code for an off the shelf beige box. Would you also unplug the FPGA boards from Hydra? Do you really want to discourage innovation in computer chess? -Keith
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