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Subject: Re: So Vincent........

Author: pavel

Date: 05:11:23 07/07/02

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On July 07, 2002 at 07:47:20, Robert Henry Durrett wrote:

>On July 07, 2002 at 02:49:49, Slater Wold wrote:
>
>>On July 07, 2002 at 02:46:08, Terry McCracken wrote:
>>
>>>On July 07, 2002 at 02:13:33, Slater Wold wrote:
>>>
>>>>How many nps does Diep get on 60 CPUs?
>>>>
>>>>I imagine it's not exactly "fine tuned", seeing as how testing time was short.
>>>>Any thoughts about this?
>>>>
>>>>Grats on the first round win!
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>Slate
>>>
>>>Hi Slate. I thought Diep was running on a supercomputer capable of 1 Teraflop,
>>>running on 1024 processors?
>>>
>>>http://www.chessbase.com/events/events.asp?pid=141
>>>
>>>http://www.sara.nl/hpc.www/teras/description/
>>>
>>>Terry
>>
>>They only allowed him to use 60 CPUs.  Time on this machine is $30 an hour per
>>processor.
>>
>>For 60 CPUs it would be $1800 an hour.
>>
>>For 1024 CPUs it would be $30,720 an hour.
>
>They must be money hungry.  Don't they know this is research?  They should
>donate the time for the publicity, if not for the good of humankind. : )
>
>Bob D.
>
...publicity for a game that has been already been solved by DB few years ago,
according to many ignorant journalist and 99.50% of the world population who
doesnt even care about computer chess.
hmmm... I see a lot publicity coming. ;)

money talks.

cheers,
pavs



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