Author: Vincent Diepeveen
Date: 04:02:35 05/19/04
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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. It's like this in all technical sports of course. You take the best hardware you can get. Note that nowadays hardware is less decisive than it was in the past. Most programs hardly profit from it. Shredder and Fritz and Junior hardly profit from it IMHO. DIEP still does but to quote Stefan MK: "you just must work at your search now". Perhaps he is right. Perhaps he isn't. I count at it he isn't and try to show up with just a bit better hardware than i had in ict4 (K7).
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