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Subject: Re: Beowulf has Moved!

Author: Vincent Diepeveen

Date: 02:12:22 07/03/05

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On June 30, 2005 at 14:17:28, Duncan Roberts wrote:

You can wait forever Duncan.

This project will probably never run an objective test over a few hundreds of
positions measuring the speedup they've got when starting with cleaned
hashtables.

The results could be dissappointing to some. For me all what matters is how much
faster it is than 1 pc. If 1024 pc's give the speed of 10 pc's, then that's
good, as it's hard to buy a 10 processor machine.

They can claim anything of course when not doing that test. 1 position proves
nothing.

How strong the program is that runs inside is less interesting if you ask me.
I'm basically more interested in the algorithmic speedup they can get.

Right now i guess that's about 1.0

>On June 30, 2005 at 13:59:37, Colin Frayn wrote:
>
>>Hi folks,
>>
>>Sorry I've not been around a for a while, and I'm even more sorry that Beowulf
>>hasn't seen any considerable development in that time.  However, the next
>>generation of ChessBrain is *very* exciting. I'm afraid I can't tell you any
>>more at this stage.
>>
>>Anyway, I thought I'd let you know that the Beowulf homepage has now moved from
>>the Chessbrain site, and on to my own personal web page. This way I can gather
>>together all my code in one place and look after it all together. So, please
>>update all your links to point to...
>>
>>http://www.frayn.net/beowulf/
>>
>>Thanks very much!
>>
>>Cheers,
>>Colin
>
>
>
>(1)are you referring to this or something even better ?
>
>
>http://www.chessbrain.net/news.html
>
>
>Bigger, stronger, faster!
>The ChessBrain software is undergoing a year-long major rewrite. Our next
>release is designed to be massively scalable running on single processor
>machines to large compute clusters - and everything in between! For the first
>time, users will be able to build and operate their own local clusters!
>
>(2) I am waiting for chessbrain to beat hydra 5.5 .5, how long will I have to
>wait. ?
>
>duncan



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