Author: KarinsDad
Date: 08:13:49 06/09/99
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On June 09, 1999 at 09:25:40, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On June 09, 1999 at 01:53:13, blass uri wrote: > >> >>On June 08, 1999 at 23:50:20, Robert Hyatt wrote: >> >><snipped> >>>totally wrong. In past wccc events commercial programs have not fared well at >>>all, with the exception of 1992 (no big iron there) and 1995 (only deep thought >>>participated from the 'big-iron' programs). >> >>I read that star socrates(2nd place) was another super computer in 1995 >>tournament. >> >>Uri > > >That is possible... what I meant was that to do well at previous wccc events, >a program had to get thru the likes of deep thought, hitech, cray blitz, bebe, >and several other 'research' programs running on big hardware platforms... > >Around 1992 this trend changed. For us it changed due to a strange shift in >ICCA policy. At the organizaational meeting of the ICCA in 1977 we _all_ voted >to alternate WCCC events between Europe and North America. And this was done >for a while... 1974 = Europe, 1977 = NA, 1980 = Europe, 1983 = NA, 1986 = >Europe, 1989 = NA, 1992 = Europe, 1995 = Europe, 1999 = Europe. Three Europes >in a row made it too expensive (IMHO). And the "big iron" faded significantly. > >Maybe not a bad thing, but it actually happened... Maybe it is time to have it back in North America for 2001-2002 (whichever year is picked). This would give me a few years to get my program working, a while to make it a parallel search (it is already designed to do this with only some minor modifications), and some time to get access to a big honking system to run it on. That would be cool!!! KarinsDad :)
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