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Subject: Re: Important announcements: Free Hardware, drinks and snacks at WCCC

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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