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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