Author: Eugene Nalimov
Date: 12:42:59 12/30/03
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On December 30, 2003 at 15:31:54, Ricardo Gibert wrote: >On December 30, 2003 at 14:33:10, Eugene Nalimov wrote: > >>On December 30, 2003 at 11:49:11, Christophe Theron wrote: >> >>> [...] >>> >>>But tournaments where people are allowed to use any hardware >>>they can find (non-uniform platform tournaments) are a pure >>>nonsense. >> >>I posted about that several times, last time probably 2 weeks ago. In short: >>would you be happy if organizers provide to every participant 16-way Itanium2 >>system, and insist that all programs will run on that hardware? That is uniform >>hardware tournament, right? >> >>Thanks, >>Eugene >> >>> Christophe > >I'm with CT. I'm not interested in the hardware competition. >I'm interested in the chess software competition on equal hardware >with enough games to produce a meaningful result. Sorry, but if *all* programs will run on a multu-CPU Itanium (or Alpha, or HP-PA, or MIPS) they will run on the equal hardware, right? >I want to know which program to buy. This is what interests >most chessplayers like it or not. The heavy iron efforts are >just a curiosity. That is valid question, but original intent of WCCC was to find out "what software and hardware combination results in the best chess playing system". Of course you can have *separate* uniform platform competition -- or, to be fare, several of them, one for single-CPU Intel systems, one for single-CPU Macs, one for single-CPU AMD64, one for dual Intel systems, one for dual Macs, one for dual AMD64 systems, one for quad Intel systems, one for quad AMD64 systems, one for dedicated chess board with ARM CPU inside, one for dedicated chess boards with MIPS CPU inside, one for Palm, one for ARM Palm, one for ARM PocketPC, one for MIPS PocketPC, etc. Thanks, Eugene
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