Author: Vincent Diepeveen
Date: 13:02:22 12/30/03
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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 I would join straight away. Even with old GCC compiler without PGO diep is 5 times faster at that hardware (1.3Ghz I2) than my dual K7 ;) As a matter of fact a certain big sponsor offered all participants quad xeons for the world champs 1999, but some big computerchess company prevented that. I'm glad they didn't win. The whole story Christophe tells is of course utter nonsense about hardware. If he would believe in that faster hardware gets Tiger a lot more rating points, he would have been parallel already years ago of course. Tiger *does* join in netherlands at least 2 open hardware events a year. Fritz, Shredder, DIEP, The Baron, Patzer, SOS all show up parallel there. Lokasoft has a dual K7 and Ed Schroeder or Jeroen Noomen has probably a dual opteron by now too. In fact majority has already A64's or opterons now. Tiger doesn't. So that proofs the point very convincingly already. Same for Johan de Koning. >> Christophe
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