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Subject: Re: what restrictions for computers in CCT5?

Author: scott farrell

Date: 19:24:14 11/29/02

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On November 29, 2002 at 11:07:35, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On November 29, 2002 at 02:50:39, scott farrell wrote:
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>>Is Robert going to use a nice shiney new quad xeon suped up super PC?
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>Not that I know of.  :)
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>>Is there a limit on the number of PCs - ie. can you enter a chess program on
>>distributed hardware?
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>I know of no hardware limits...
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>>Do they have to be PCs at all? Is specialized chess hardware allowed?
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>>My program currently uses the egtb code / database on a seperate machine - is
>>that allowed?
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>Yes although it is a penalty in terms of performance...

I agree on 1 PC it would be a penalty, but in a distributed scenario it would be
just too hard to get the 7gb databases on each PC.



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