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Subject: Re: Is Crafty 17.10 the final version?!

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 10:07:47 06/02/00

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On June 02, 2000 at 10:59:08, pavel wrote:

>On June 02, 2000 at 10:26:41, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>>On June 02, 2000 at 02:10:35, Jouni Uski wrote:
>>
>>>Any plans for 17.11? Os is it impossible to better 17.10...
>>>
>>>thanks Jouni
>>
>>
>>17.10 has plenty of room for improvement. The problem has been "me" and not
>>"Crafty".  Thursday a week ago I had to make the third visit to my local
>>hospital for surgery.  I returned home Sunday night.  I haven't been out
>>much although I am certainly 'chomping at the bit' to get out now...
>>
>>However, that is a huge time-loser, as I am teaching two courses, and had to
>>make arrangements to have the classes covered, give exams, and so forth, and
>>now I have about 4 days left to grade everything.
>>
>>This simply explains "part" of my very busy schedule for the past 2 months.  I
>>have been working on the Beowulf cluster, managing a new firewall, setting up a
>>new computer lab, etc.  Which means that my time for Crafty has been fairly
>>limited.  17.11 will be out fairly soon, and hopefully late this summer (after
>>other 17.x versions are out) a new 18.0 will show up that will run on clusters.
>>
>>I try hard, believe me.  But sometimes mother nature, UAB, or my wife/kids have
>>other ideas about how I get to spend my time.  :)
>>
>>Bob
>
>
>Hi Bob,
>         You were in the hospital for surgery (yours?) ?. Why? what happened to
>you? is it anything bad?
>concerned,
>Pavel


No nothing bad, just annoying, but hopefully fixed.




>
>ps, what do you mean by future craftys (18.xx) running on "clusters"? what does
>it mean? also what are your future plans for crafty as far as improvements are
>concerned.


A cluster is simply two or more machines connected via a network of some kind.
If you have two machines in your home, connected via ethernet, you could use
_both_ to run a distributed Crafty that will use both cpus to play a single
game.




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