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Subject: Re: Distributed perft project, Note to Aaron

Author: Albert Bertilsson

Date: 13:01:08 12/11/03

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On December 11, 2003 at 15:57:07, Aaron Gordon wrote:

>On December 11, 2003 at 15:49:12, Albert Bertilsson wrote:
>
>>To Aaron Gordon...
>>
>>Aaron if you intend to continue having your all your computers on the project
>>for a longer time I'd be happy if you used a separate user name for the fastest
>>computer, that way it will be easy to follow its daily/weekly statistics
>>compared to other fast machines. It doesn't matter but many seems to be
>>interested in comparing the numbers. I'll try to gather some info on the other
>>clients as well.
>>
>>(In order to create a new user you have to delete the config file on that
>>computer)
>>
>>/Regards Albert
>
>I don't think this would be a good way of tracking the performance accurately. I
>won't be able to run this program 24 hours per day on this machine.. and if
>comparing it to a slower machine which is running 24 hours per day wouldn't be
>great for testing... as one would assume the slower machine is faster due to it
>doing more blocks per day. The best way IMHO is to just maintain a "perfthash 8"
>(or 7) benchmark result list and ask everyone on the list to submit.. that way
>you can see which computers are the fastest accurately.
>
>Plus, everyone else has a head start on me on the list.. :)

True, but that head start will only help them for a couple of hours.

/Regards Albert



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