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Subject: Re: log files for important computer chess competitions

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 21:34:26 08/02/03

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On August 01, 2003 at 19:02:18, Dave Gomboc wrote:

>On July 29, 2003 at 15:40:25, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:
>
>>On July 29, 2003 at 03:51:58, Uri Blass wrote:
>>
>>>On July 29, 2003 at 03:25:07, Ed Schröder wrote:
>>>
>>>>On July 28, 2003 at 19:58:20, Dan Simmons wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>On July 28, 2003 at 16:22:14, mike schoonover wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>to have vincent or not to have vincent?
>>>>>>i have'nt an answer.
>>>>>>i do know this.
>>>>>>if i pulled one tenth of the crap he pulls,i wouild be banned here,
>>>>>>and persona non grata in every chess forum on the net.
>>>>>>becuase i am mike,not vincent.
>>>>>>regards
>>>>>>mike
>>>>
>>>>>I think that those most opposed to Vince don't necessarily want him banned, they
>>>>>just realize that if they posted the same, they would be banned.  And this
>>>>>upsets them.  Everyone is equal, some are just more equal than others.
>>>>
>>>>Well said Dan & Mike.
>>>>
>>>>Suppose Bobby Fischer starts posting here, would he be banned after a series of
>>>>anti-semitic rants? If the mods would ban him they will receive the wrath of
>>>>CCC, you don't ban a celebrity.
>>>>
>>>>We all are going to watch the next fight of Mike Tyson even when he bites the
>>>>ear of the queen of England. Celebrity cuddling is global annd part of human
>>>>nature, this is what Mr. Skinner overlooked when he started his campaign.
>>>>
>>>>Ed
>>>
>>>There is a difference.
>>>Vincent never was a world champion and never won an important tournament.
>>>
>>>I do not understand why people give him supercomputer for the next championship.
>>>They could do better by giving the super computer to another programmer.
>>>
>>>Today the situation is not clear because we have inferior programmer with better
>>>hardware so every result is not going to be a surprise for me.
>>>
>>>I think that Amir Ban or Stefan mayer kahlan or Fransh morsh or Johan de koning
>>>could do better with the same hardware and if one of them was invited to work on
>>>the super computer I could be almost sure that the super computer is going to
>>>win.
>>>
>>>I do not understand why the rich people who have a lot of money to spend on
>>>using a super computer do not hire one of the people that I mentioned.
>>>
>>>Uri
>>
>>Diep is the only program that can run on this supercomputer. Chessbase hired
>>Donninger. I assume he cannot get it to work at the supercomputer very well.
>>
>>The King is not even parallel so i do not understand you mention him here, as it
>>will take him 6 years to get it to work i guess. Apart from that it is inline
>>assembly his code, still using the watcom c++ compiler as he knows how it uses
>>the registers.
>>
>>Though i guess he has a C version too.
>>
>>Frans Morsch has his program entirely in assembly so not a single highend
>>machine will be capable of running Fritz.
>>
>>Amir Ban is parallel let's see with what kind of machine he shows up. I am sure
>>though that a 500 processor machine is a waste for junior because it gets too
>>many nodes a second. Perhaps they can get it to work at a 32 processor machine
>>or something.
>>
>>Shredder tried to get working over a netwerk. Failed.
>>
>>Chessbase saw this already years ago of course. So they hired Donninger to do
>>the job. Let's see how many processors it will use in world champs. You know my
>>table. My table assumes that phase 1 is getting it dual to work.
>>
>>Phase 2 is 4-16 processors. Phase 3 is 32-64 processors. Phase 4 is 128-500
>>processors.
>>
>>Let's be clear. Donninger has 192 processors to his avail there. Each processor
>>is a fast Xeon processor. Not sure to what processor they updated it this time.
>>Probably something like a 3Ghz Xeon.
>>
>>Wuellenweber planned in 2002 to put 100 cards in that machine.
>>
>>Let's see how many they can get to work at it and how efficient it will be.
>>
>>Of course only when we get extensive logfiles available after or short before
>>world champs then we can verify it.
>>
>>But from DIEP you will see all logfiles posted so you can check it out at your
>>PC. My betatesters probably will be delighted to search single and dual cpu with
>>the 100% same version and see what time it takes to get each search performed.
>>
>>So there is a lot of openness.
>>
>>I hope you realize that giving the system time of a supercomputer to the
>>majority of your suggestions will mean that nothing runs at it.
>>
>>I know you do not bet at DIEP because of subjective feelings, but remember that
>>with all the disasters happened it still got divided 5th in 2002.
>>
>>For 2003 you should give it quite a bit more credits though.
>>
>>Best regards,
>>Vincent
>
>Speaking of log files, I recall a lot of grief about GK vs DB II, though
>apparently GK was given log files after the match, and eventually they were also
>released to the public (posted on the internet).
>
>Fritz vs. Kramnik had a public log, right?
>
>Have DJ vs. Kasparov logs been released?
>
>Dave

Nope.  But then again Kasparov didn't make a huge fuss about wanting to
see them either.



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