Author: Bob Durrett
Date: 16:07:59 02/01/04
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On February 01, 2004 at 16:45:16, Russell Reagan wrote: >On February 01, 2004 at 15:30:14, David Dahlem wrote: > >>>That's the fallacy of CCT. If everyone is running on a different machine, what's >>>being proven? > >>The best engine/machine combo. :-) > >Exactly right. There is absolutely no possible way to have an equal hardware >event. Not practically, not theoretically. Even if the organizer could afford to >buy the same machine for everyone, it wouldn't be fair. > >No matter what you do, you will get complaints. > >"My engine runs better on P4..." >"My engine runs better on Athlons..." >"My engine runs better on Xeon..." >"My engine runs better on Opteron..." >"My engine supports multiple CPUs, this isn't fair! I spent a lot of time >working on multiple CPU support!" >"My engine doesn't support multiple CPUs, this isn't fair!" >"My engine runs better on 64-bit hardware..." >"My engine doesn't get as big of a boost on 64-bit hardware as others do, this >isn't fair!" > >And so on... > >The only way to do it is to treat each participant as one chess player. One >author's strategy may be to focus on software imrpovements, another may choose >to focus on hardware improvements (Brutus, Deep Blue, etc.). Making a chess-playing program which runs really well on a multiprocessor computer is quite an accomplishment even if several programmers have already done that. Bob D.
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