Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 10:25:33 04/25/05
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On April 23, 2005 at 17:19:15, Daniel Pineo 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 ? > >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. It will be like the US car ads "The best vehicle in its class"[*] [*] consisting of 2 door sedans of over 375 horsepower and selling for $87,000 or more, manufactured on a tuesday.
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