Author: Dave Gomboc
Date: 08:58:24 03/23/00
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On March 23, 2000 at 09:41:41, Bernhard Bauer wrote: >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 Hmm, well my take on it is that the code to generate the tablebases is already developed, so the viability of the project in terms of somebody getting a thesis for compiling the code and running it is low. Dave
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