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

Author: Bernhard Bauer

Date: 06:41:41 03/23/00

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On March 22, 2000 at 18:57:14, Dave Gomboc wrote:

>On March 21, 2000 at 09:04:06, Bernhard Bauer wrote:
>
>>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
>
>Why would this be a good project for a university?
>
>It seems to me that it would be a better project for someone with a lot of money
>and nothing better to do with it.
>
>Dave

Sorry for being not clear enough. What I had in mind is that computer science
is taught at many universities. Here in Germany the university of Paterborn
comes to mind and E. A. Heinz from the university of Karlsruhe is widely known.
Many scientists have worked in this area. In this thread was a link to an ICCA
article where this work was discribed.
Still we do not have the complete set of 6-men tablebases. Stiller did some
investigations in his thesis, but now we don't need a connection machine, the
work could be done by a usual computer. But now we would like to store the data
and make it available to the public.
So I think it should be possible to do this work in another thesis.
Of course, if someone with a lot of money is willing to help, I think he's
welcome.
Kind regards
Bernhard




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