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Subject: Re: Isn't Vincent Setting a Nasty Precedent?

Author: Vincent Lejeune

Date: 00:44:24 07/02/02

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On July 01, 2002 at 22:59:42, Dann Corbit wrote:

>On July 01, 2002 at 22:17:19, Robert Henry Durrett wrote:
>
>>
>>DIEP will surely become the reigning wccc champion, by virtue of Vincent's
>>non-PC 1024-processor "box."
>>
>>Next year, it will become evident to all that the only way to topple the champ
>>will be to "fight fire with fire."
>>
>>Everyone who can afford it will run their chess engines on 1024-processor super
>>computers too!
>>
>>Vincent!!!  What have you started here?
>>
>>:) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :)
>>
>
>He's hardly the first one to use a pile of CPU's.  In fact, a giant pile of
>processors has been used for a very long time now for many WCCC's.  It is new
>for WMCCC, but that's another story.
>
>Star Socrates,
>Cilkchess,
>Zugzwang
>etc.

I think it's the first time that a so advance software (I mean software with
good results on a 1 or 2 cpu) runs on a >100 CPUs machine !




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