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Subject: Table statement

Author: Vincent Diepeveen

Date: 07:39:10 09/04/02

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On September 04, 2002 at 00:32:05, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On September 03, 2002 at 23:42:57, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:
>
>>On September 03, 2002 at 22:19:06, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>>
>>the word 'time' is the crucial thing bob everywhere.
>>in fact in crafty you don't even mention how many nodes it needs
>>each ply. you just post how much time a ply it needs. sometimes it's
>>not even clear whether it finished or started a plydepth for the outside,
>>just the time is always very clear mentionned.
>
>Certainly...
>
>
>>
>>We talk about time. if you have the times, you can calculate the
>>speedups. nothing more and nothing less.
>
>Never said otherwise.  I specifically said that the speedups were calculated
>_from_ the times mined from the log files for the 5 tests...

Do you by this officially claim now that the table with
the search times and node numbers is a fake table which
you calculated later yourself based upon speedups which
you had written down on a small noteblock?

So the tables 3 and 4 on page 16 at icca issue 1 1997
are completely *faked* you claim now?

>>
>>if you have a speedup and consider time to get that speedup a detail,
>>then the speedup numbers are not true. If the times are not correct
>>therefore nothing can be correct. If the times are there to hide the
>>speedup of 16 cpu's was not as great as 1-8 cpu's, then it is obvious
>>not a fair thing to do.
>
>
>
>I have no idea what you mean.  The speedups _were_ directly calculated from
>the times in the log files.  That table was put into the paper.  Nodes and
>times were added much later.  Perhaps 2-3 years even.  Remember that the game
>was played late in 1993 in Indianapolis.  I ran the 1-2-4-8 tests during the
>next year.  So it was essentially finished in 1994.  It was published several
>years later after significant revisions to shorten it, and a few additions to
>add more data.

>That's all that happened.  The speedups _were_ the critical data that were
>calculated directly from log times.  I've said it several times.  You don't
>listen...



>>
>>The times bob. Not a round off scenario can save you. Not an 'excel
>>rounded my times to whole numbers' scenario can save you.
>>
>>Do these times look like 'rounded off times' to you? Sure not to me:
>
>I haven't said a thing about rounding times.  Someone asked about rounding
>off the speedups which certainly happened since they are only given to one
>decimel place...
>
>But no one has suggested _anything_ about rounding the times.  As I said,
>it is possible that when we computed the node counts, we computed the time,
>since the speedups were computed from the raw times, the raw times can be
>reconstructed with very little error from the speedups...
>
>
>>
>>
>>First, times in seconds:
>>
>>pos     1       2       4       8       16
>>1       2,830   1,415   832     435     311
>>2       2,849   1,424   791     438     274
>>3       3,274   1,637   884     467     239
>>4       2,308   1,154   591     349     208
>>5       1,584   792     440     243     178
>>6       4,294   2,147   1,160   670     452
>>7       1,888   993     524     273     187
>>8       7,275   3,637   1,966   1,039   680
>>9       3,940   1,970   1,094   635     398
>>10      2,431   1,215   639     333     187
>>11      3,062   1,531   827     425     247
>>12      2,518   1,325   662     364     219
>>13      2,131   1,121   560     313     192
>>14      1,871   935     534     296     191
>>15      2,648   1,324   715     378     243
>>16      2,347   1,235   601     321     182
>>17      4,884   2,872   1,878   1,085   814
>>18      646     358     222     124     84
>>19      2,983   1,491   785     426     226
>>20      7,473   3,736   1,916   1,083   530
>>21      3,626   1,813   906     489     237
>>22      2,560   1,347   691     412     264
>>23      2,039   1,019   536     323     206
>>24      2,563   1,281   657     337     178
>>
>>But if horrors are not enough. He there are MORE statistical ways to
>>review results. amazingly, but true.
>>
>>anyway. it is bedtime here. tomorrow another output hopefully if the
>>excel experts are awake.
>>
>
>I can hardly wait.  If you spent as much time working on improving your stuff
>as you do trying to discredit everyone else, you'd be far better off...
>
>But follow the path you think does you the best service...



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