Author: Matthew Hull
Date: 05:39:58 05/19/04
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On May 19, 2004 at 01:29:15, Derek Paquette wrote: >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 Wrong. Shredder won by a half point because Johnny threw a drawn game against Shredder, which is of course, cheating. Fritz was the real winner. 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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