Author: Ulrich Tuerke
Date: 13:56:17 12/08/00
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On December 07, 2000 at 23:54:48, Michael Cummings wrote: >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. It depends. Of course, you are allowed to bring the hardware which you need, or make a telnet session to your hardware. On the other hand, the university will usually provide a limited number of ultra sparcs and PCs. So in case you apply sufficiently early, you may be lucky to get a university machine (which is úsually reasonably fast). Stephan is perfectly right saying that the athmosphere there is very friendyl; each evening the programmers and spectators keep on chatting and joking, drinking a beer. In my opinion, it's a very good chance for amateurs to test their progs and to get in contact to some professionells. Regards, Uli
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