Author: Russell Reagan
Date: 14:01:07 12/16/03
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On December 16, 2003 at 16:29:59, Albert Bertilsson wrote: >Hi everybody! > >This will hopefully be the final DPerft trend for perft(11). Only 19% remains, >so the project will probably be finnished tomorrow. Still I wish to welcome the >new participants of today and I hope they stick around to finnish perft(12), now >that we have the whole system running. > >To make life easier on the server and prepare it for the much larger problem >that it is to run all the perft(4) positions (200'000 positions instead of >8'902) I've upgraded the client to not update statistics each time a problem is >completed. When you want the latest statistics you push the "update" button. > >I also simplified the statistics calculation to use better and fewer SQL-querys. >This gave a speedup of about 30% for generating the stats. To give more users >possibility to participate I also set up a server at port 80, so in case you've >had troubles with your firewall try it again. > >I hope the transition tomorrow will be smooth and everything will continue as if >nothing happened. To really get going on perft(12) we would need even more >participants so if you know anybody with a spare computer give him or her the >link... > >Follow this link to become a participant: >http://www.albert.nu/programs/dperft > >Regards Albert You might try posting this to forums (or emailing someone) of distributed computing groups, as well as some of the hardware sites that have forums. I remember that someone posted a message to the forums at www.anandtech.com and they started a team for the Chess Brain project and got a whole lot of participation (they are currently ranked #3). Sometimes you can get someone who will run the thing on their top of the line machines at work during the night :) If you had some way of automatically updating a stats webpage on your site every so often (maybe once an hour or something), I bet you would get more participation. People are more willing to do something like this when they can see their progress (even if it's progress towards nothing important, like chess).
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