Author: Albert Bertilsson
Date: 23:41:00 12/16/03
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On December 16, 2003 at 17:01:07, Russell Reagan wrote: >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). I'll browse around for suitable places to post on. Thanx for the advice. /Regards Albert
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