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Subject: Re: Distributed perft project

Author: Aaron Gordon

Date: 11:18:00 12/11/03

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On December 11, 2003 at 13:50:57, Albert Bertilsson wrote:

>On December 11, 2003 at 13:34:36, Aaron Gordon wrote:
>
>>On December 11, 2003 at 12:39:59, Albert Bertilsson wrote:
>>
>>>On December 11, 2003 at 12:34:33, Aaron Gordon wrote:
>>>
>>>>On December 11, 2003 at 07:08:30, Albert Bertilsson wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>Hi!
>>>>>
>>>>>If you have any wasted cpu-resources join my distributed perft project to
>>>>>calculate perft(11). Any contribution large or small is welcome.
>>>>>
>>>>>The project is currently under testing to see how many will join (I'll not do it
>>>>>myself) and to make sure that the server is working ok on the internet, I've
>>>>>just tested it on LAN before.
>>>>>
>>>>>You need .Net framework from Microsoft to participate.
>>>>>
>>>>>Home page:
>>>>>http://www.albert.nu/programs/dperft
>>>>>
>>>>>/Regards Albert
>>>>
>>>>Can I put multiple computers doing this and have it use the same user name (and
>>>>still have it do different work units)? Or will I need to make a different user
>>>>(MoD, MoD2, etc) for each computer? Thanks.
>>>
>>>There is no technical problem with having multiple computers doing multiple
>>>workloads using the same username and password. But for statistics I recomend
>>>you to have diffrent names (password could be the same). For example I use
>>>AlbertProg and AlbertOffice to separate my two computers (otherwise they would
>>>be visible as one very powerful computer). If you have a multiple CPU machine
>>>I'd recommend that you use the same name/pass for all the clients running on
>>>that machine (no multi-cpu support).
>>
>>Ah, ok. I ended up putting all of my available computers that aren't already
>>doing something on your project. Hopefully it helps a little bit, here is what I
>>have so far on the username MoD:
>>
>>Athlon XP 2.5GHz w/ 512mb hash
>>Athlon XP 2.5GHz w/ 128mb hash
>>Athlon XP 1.6GHz w/ 128mb hash
>>Athlon TB 1.2GHz w/ 256mb hash
>>Celeron-2 1.0GHz w/ 128mb hash
>>
>>Also I was wondering about something... Would you be able to add a benchmark
>>mode into your current client, that way we can do some speed testing between the
>>various cpus? Thanks.
>
>You just doubled the number of computers on the project (Assuming the other
>participants are using one computer each)! If you'd like to bench them for this
>project just start the engine and type "perfthash 8". This will be a pretty good
>benchmark for this problem (I guess you 2.5GHz 512MB Athlon) will do quite well.
>Post your results here, I'll collect them.
>
>A benchmark in the client GUI would be possible to implement, sending the result
>to the server and storing it there, but I think the manual way is good enough.
>If we go after perft(12) I'll update the client to include this feature.
>
>/Regards Albert

Thanks :)  Just curious, do you plan a linux version at any point?
Also, any idea how long the benchmark may take? I was hoping for something that
could be run in a 1-3 minute period. Thanks again...



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