Author: Matthew Hull
Date: 13:43:49 11/18/03
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On November 18, 2003 at 16:15:32, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote: >>But, as long as Europeans insist on limiting the event to their small, >>technologically limited (little windows machines) sphere of influence, then it >>will forever continue to be a small European event of little interest to AI and >>the scientific community at large. > >Shrug, facts quite simply disagree with you. > >PS. What US programs run on supercomputers exactly? Crafty runs on just about anything. Euros could learn a thing or two about flexible, scalable application design. Crafty is a good example of that. IBM has a nice 32-way, 64-bit machine. I'd bet on the possiblity they would loan a machine for some more cool marketing props to a project like Crafty, or some other mulit-processor effort. You can bet they'd get more from their investment a US event than in an obscure European event. I mean Graz? Graz is nowhere, man. Nobody cares about it. You might as well hold it in your backyard (do Europeans have backyards?). I think this shows two things. Euorpean efforts are mainly commercial in nature, just trying to turn a Euro, so they target their applications to the technologically confined consumer market, and the WCCC is just another cog in the marketing of their "product". Many American entries have typically been from the scientific research community, who are more interested in exploring the boundaries of technology, which is much more interesting, since the knowlege gained is shared and enjoyed (share and enjoy!!!) by everyone. European commercialists don't share. If the WCCC had continued to be held in North America, you would have seen a continued interest from the university in fielding technology to participate in the challenge. We would see more research as we did in the '80s, and knowlegde would have an opportunity to be shared and increased. Hold this same event in North America and people here will care. MH > >-- >GCP
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