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Subject: Re: FMD-ROM : 140 Gb for your tablebases!

Author: Bernhard Bauer

Date: 06:04:06 03/21/00

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On March 20, 2000 at 12:28:57, blass uri wrote:

>On March 20, 2000 at 03:49:50, Paulo Soares wrote:
>
>>On March 20, 2000 at 00:58:48, Côme wrote:
>>
>>>On March 19, 2000 at 22:22:34, Paulo Soares wrote:
>>>
>>>>On March 19, 2000 at 21:48:30, Aloisio Ponti Lopes wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>...maybe it will be available in the next 2 years.
>>>>>
>>>>>A. Ponti
>>>>
>>>>Which would be the largest number of pieces to be used in Nalimov
>>>>Tablebases with 140Mgz? 7, 8, 9?
>>>>
>>>>Paulo Soares, from Brazil
>>>
>>>Hello,
>>>IMHO only 6 pieces.
>>>Best Regards
>>>Alexandre Côme
>>
>>Only 6! How many memory for 7 pieces?
>>Thanks,
>>Paulo
>
>I think that if you want all of them you need about some hundreds times more
>memory for adding one piece.
>
>The problem is that the number of possibility of 7 pieces is significantly
>bigger than the number of possibility of 6 pieces and not only the fact that you
>need about 60 times more memory for one 7 pieces tablebase relative to 6 pieces
>tablebase.
>
>You need some Gbytes for 5 pieces tablebases
>then you probably need  some hundreds of thoushands of Gbytes for all the 7
>pieces tablebases
>
>You need sometimes hundreds of mbytes for one 5 pieces tablebases so you need
>something some Gbytes to use one 6 men tablebases and you need something like
>100-200 Gbytes to use only one 7 men tablebase.
>
>Uri

As a rule of thumb the number of files for n+1 men tablebases is 4 times the
number of n men files. The size is going up with a factor of ~60. So if you
need 5 gigs for the 5-men class you will need about 1.2 tera bytes for the
6-men class. This is "only" 30 40-gig drives.
IMHO it would make a good project for a university to generate and hold them on
disk.

Kind regards
Bernhard



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