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Subject: Re: Generating endgame tablebases

Author: Slater Wold

Date: 19:55:27 10/10/01

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On October 10, 2001 at 22:36:01, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On October 10, 2001 at 16:55:16, Olaf Jenkner wrote:
>
>>>Some took hours on a Cray (Stiller).  Figure months on a PC for those.
>>>No idea how long the really bad ones will take (kppkpp for example.)
>>>The promotion cases will certainly take a _long_ while...
>>
>>Didn't use Stiller the connection machine?
>>I remember that I read 1991 about this.
>>
>>OJe
>
>
>He used both.  Burton Wendroff/Tony Warnock got him some time on a C90
>sometime in the 1993 time frame...  The advantage of the C90 is that it
>comes with 32 gigabytes of RAM, which was helpful for making the generator
>run very fast...  Of course, he didn't do any compression, and he couldn't
>write the files out to anything for saving them...  but he did compute some
>statistics about them before chucking them.

Any idea where to get those statistics Bob?

Who is compiling them now?

How hard is it to get time on a Cray?



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