Author: Olaf Jenkner
Date: 10:32:31 09/08/02
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On September 08, 2002 at 07:33:54, GuyHaworth wrote: > >The practice of generating 6-man EGTs not only generates the EGTs but generates: > >- experience in generating EGTs >- awareness of the problem that distribution of the information is not easy > >New ideas are coming forward from time to time, and these will be even more >useful for larger EGTs. > >e.g.: If we had a GIMPS- or SETI-like distributed-community approach to >generating EGTs, an HQ distributing the remaining unsolved problems, we would >not be taking years to generate 6-man EGTs. > >We are not using parallel computers ... or distributed communities yet. > >Nor are we generating DTC or DTZ EGTs (which involve smaller depths and >therefore less space), or getting a better compression in 'real-time versions of >the EGTs' by setting 'broken' values' to 'last seen' values. > >This last is admittedly a 'finesse' and assumes that no 'broken' positions are >enquired about - or at least that the access-code checks for 'broken positions'. > >g Distributed generation will not work. Even clusters can't be used to generate EGTB, as Bob Hyatt wrote some time ago. Olaf Jenkner
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