Author: Paul Rajlich
Date: 07:44:06 12/18/05
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On December 18, 2005 at 07:30:41, Vasik Rajlich wrote: >On December 17, 2005 at 23:45:35, Zappa wrote: > >>On December 17, 2005 at 20:47:58, Paul Rajlich wrote: >> >>>On December 17, 2005 at 17:41:32, Zappa wrote: >>> >>>>We should meet up sometime. >>>> >>>>anthony >>> >>>Hi Anthony, >>> >>>I may be a UIUC character, but I am not a computer-chess person. I am Vas' >>>younger brother and I joined this board just to see what is up with Rybka. My >>>area of interest is very high-end displays: >>> >>> http://brighton.ncsa.uiuc.edu/~prajlich/wall.html >>> >>>-Paul >> >>That's OK, I didn't really think there would be two engine authors in one family >>:) >> >>I myself am more of a computer science person then a computer chess person - >>I'm much more interested in the parallel aspect of Zappa than actually making it >>play good chess. So we might have some things to talk about. I'm also rather >>curious about a family that seems to hail from a strange combination of Hungary >>and Michigan . . . >> >>anthony > >Actually we're Czech. > >BTW you'll feel right at home at UIUC, they love ultra-parallel solutions there. >For an example, check out my bro's web site (www.visbox.com). Those huge screens >are controlled by something like 40 PCs - you can imagine how much work it is to >get it all running together. Even just to unpack the computers. > >I guess we'll see next summer if this also works in computer chess. :) > >Vas Anthony, Our nuclear family immigrated to the USA from what was Czechoslovakia in the early 80's. Vas went back to Europe a few years ago to play chess. The Visbox website is for my company that designs and manufactures high-end display hardware. I still have a part-time appointment with the university (NCSA - www.ncsa.uiuc.edu) where I do more of my software work. You should come over and take a look. The display wall at NCSA is 18 feet across, about 30 million pixels, and is powered by a 40 projectors and 48 nodes (89 CPUs total). As you can imagine, it can display incredible amounts of information at once. Send me an email sometime if you want to see it. Vas, I'm curious to know what parallel plans you have. I'll send you an email. -Paul
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