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Subject: Re: playing with the Opteron - Part I.

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 07:23:06 01/28/04

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On January 27, 2004 at 22:44:21, enrico carrisco wrote:

>On January 26, 2004 at 21:46:23, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>>On January 26, 2004 at 17:53:15, enrico carrisco wrote:
>>
>>>On January 26, 2004 at 16:06:13, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>>>
>>>>On January 26, 2004 at 15:59:59, Rolf Tueschen wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>On January 26, 2004 at 15:47:56, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>This is probably the best result I have ever seen from Crafty.  I am simply
>>>>>>running some "sanity checks" to make sure everything is functioning, after a few
>>>>>>recent changes.  Here is my first test, WAC at 1 second per move:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>total positions searched..........         300
>>>>>>number right......................         299
>>>>>>number wrong......................           1
>>>>>>percentage right..................          99
>>>>>>percentage wrong..................           0
>>>>>>total nodes searched..............   109706792
>>>>>>average search depth..............         4.6
>>>>>>nodes per second..................     6522401
>>>>>>
>>>>>>It misses #230.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>I re-compiled with Dann's favorite -DDETECTDRAW and at one second per move,
>>>>>>blasted out the following result:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>total positions searched..........         300
>>>>>>number right......................         300
>>>>>>number wrong......................           0
>>>>>>percentage right..................         100
>>>>>>percentage wrong..................           0
>>>>>>total nodes searched..............   103251953
>>>>>>average search depth..............         4.5
>>>>>>nodes per second..................     5713998
>>>>>>
>>>>>>I will try to run some other tests as I continue looking at things.  I am also
>>>>>>once again experimenting with the -DFUTILITY stuff that Jeramiah wrote, to see
>>>>>>how it affects things on this really monster box.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>BTW for those that have asked, "crafty" is playing on ICC most of this week
>>>>>>using this box.  Scrappy is running on my normal dual xeon 2.8 all the time...
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>I love you as a scientist, buddy, but how will you do as a participant at the
>>>>>CTG6? You are doing a good job in training your own opponents IMO. But this is
>>>>>the most decent I've seen for years here around! I wish that Crafty still takes
>>>>>the event in passing by. You deserved it. Fingers crossed. :)
>>>>>
>>>>>Rolf
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>You mean the actual event?
>>>>
>>>>Hint:  Crafty will _not_ be using the same book I am playing with on ICC right
>>>>now.  :)  That's all I'll say.  Except that it will not be using a commercial
>>>>book either.  :)
>>>
>>>You'll need to send that book over for inspection immediately.
>>>My email address is....  ;)
>>>
>>>-elc.
>>
>>
>>I'll mail it to you Sunday night.  :)
>>
>>My old Cray Blitz book partner is coming down Wednesday for a day or two of book
>>tuning.  Like the good old days.  :)
>
>If I didn't know better I'd say someone wants to win the tournament.  This
>appears to be more effort than the past CCTs (4 & 5), no?
>
>-elc.

No.  I do some book preparation every time.  Remember that I won the first one
and finished in a 3-way tie for first in the last one...  I take all such events
seriously, but I'm hardly paranoid.  I casually asked AMD about the opteron I
was using to help them evaluate the "scaling" issue for Crafty on their NUMA
boxes, and they said "probably not" and then with no further prompting said
"here's a box to use..."

I don't lose sleep over these events, but do try to be reasonably well prepared.
 I called bert and he was interested in coming down as we used to do this for
weeks in the old CB days. :)




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