Author: Zappa
Date: 11:47:26 12/19/05
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On December 19, 2005 at 07:11:14, Vasik Rajlich wrote: >On December 18, 2005 at 10:44:06, Paul Rajlich wrote: > >>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 > >The Rybka parallel plans are pretty modest - something like 5.5x speedup on 8 >processors will be enough, the main thing is to avoid sinking massive amounts of >time into it. Most of our customers have 1 cpu or 2 cpu machines. > >Vas But its so much fun! :) anthony
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