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Subject: Re: IPCCC 2001 paderborn Hotel

Author: Michael Cummings

Date: 20:54:48 12/07/00

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On December 07, 2000 at 23:34:25, Jeremiah Penery wrote:

>On December 07, 2000 at 19:34:50, Michael Cummings wrote:
>
>>Maybe the info has already been given, so I apolagise if it has. But what
>>hardware are you using. Cause in the past programs have won using hardware
>>99.9999% of people do not have, then they go on to claim that the program they
>>they want us to buy wins world championships, even though they were using mini
>>supercomputers.
>
>I don't totally agree here.  In 1999 at Paderborn (?), Shredder won the WCCC
>using only a PIII-550.  Many other programs were running on much larger hardware
>- I think P.CoNnerS was running on something like 60xPII-300, Zugzwang was also
>running on a large message-passing architecture, and several programs had more
>'normal' Quad Xeons and the like.

No, don't get me wrong, this message was not aimed at Stefan, I just want to
know at this moment, whether he will be playing shredder on hardware that we can
all use, or whether he is aiming for something higher.



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