Author: Bruce Moreland
Date: 19:42:08 09/03/01
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On September 03, 2001 at 19:54:40, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: >On September 03, 2001 at 18:50:24, Joshua Lee wrote: > >>I am not going to say Uri is right or wrong for doing this as it is none of my >>business but i will say that i would'nt do this for one good reason i am maybe >>Class A Strength and i could get a 512 processor DEC Alpha or a Cray and Put a >>chess program on it and everybody else in the world would be extreemly lucky if >>they would even draw a game. > >Ah you would lose chanceless from Uri, because your Cray is not going >to run a single program, and as we know the b.f. from Cray blitz wasn't >that well and it was a 1984 program or whatever. > >Also i can't remember any program except DIEP and crafty running on >alpha's but neither of them runs on a 512 processor cluster. You are forgetting a few, like my program and Dark Thought. If you are all C, and you use MSVC, you can run on an Alpha in about five minutes work. I know this is true because I watched Stefan port Shredder to Alpha (my Alpha) the day before the 1997 WMCCC. bruce
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