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Subject: Re: Distributed perft, current standings and trends

Author: Slater Wold

Date: 17:09:23 12/12/03

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On December 12, 2003 at 17:26:04, Aaron Gordon wrote:

>I was wondering if it may be better to track the stats by trillions of moves
>done instead of on a block by block basis. Because the current way doesn't seem
>as if it'd be completely fair. For example.. lets say computer X is twice as
>fast as computer Y. However, computer Y completes two smaller blocks in the same
>time it takes computer X to do one. Now the stats report that computer Y has
>done two blocks, looking like it is twice as fast as computer X when actually
>the reverse is true. Just something to think about. Thanks for the project, I
>always love the distributed stuff. :)

Good point.  My P4 2.0Ghz laptop worked on the same problem (set) for 6 hours...

My P4 3.06Ghz finished one in 20 minutes.



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