Author: Vincent Diepeveen
Date: 16:46:25 10/23/03
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On October 23, 2003 at 19:32:11, Charles Roberson wrote: >On October 23, 2003 at 18:47:36, Jason Waugh wrote: > >>Is this a hardware battle... or a battle to see which SOFTWARE can win? I think >>it's wonderful to see who has the best ideas and the programming chops to >>implement them rather than who can afford the best equipment. Seems a lot more >>fun to me. >> >> >> >>Jason W. > > Look at the history of WCCC. There are many examples where faster HW didn't >win. A single proc pentium 90 beat a 512 proc (or was it 1000) machine and >deep blue. Last year Brutus did well but didn't win with FPGA. cilkchess was around 2000 processors world champs 1995 hong kong. > I am not saying that speed doesn't make a difference. It should make an >individual machine play better. But, it takes more than speed to be the best. > > Charles
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