Author: Derek Paquette
Date: 22:29:15 05/18/04
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On May 19, 2004 at 00:29:42, Joshua Shriver wrote: >Are there any kind of hardware limitations in computer competitions? > >If not, I'd imagine people would just bring a small custom cluster. > >TSCP would beat Hiarcs or Shredder if tscp was parallelized and Hiarcs was on a >486. > >Just an idea; perhaps there should be some kind of limitation. >If not then you're not really testing the strength of the engines, but a >combination of code and hardware. In that case, whoever has the most money has a >huge advantage. Especially if clustering is allowed. > >Just my $0.02, curious to your opinions. I have to disagree Fritz and Junior were running on quads last year and got beat out by Shredder on a dual, and Diep was running on a super computer and still lost, If i write a program and it runs GREAT on a dual, but if i try and get it to work on a 32chip cluster and everything mucks up and lose, then what sort of program do i have now? If you got ENORMOUS hardware and kill everyone, its a tribut to the author, and its a tribute to the program aswell to show just how strong it is on that hardware, not all programers are as skilled as others.
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