Author: Vincent Diepeveen
Date: 09:23:41 06/29/04
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On June 29, 2004 at 11:59:42, Robert Hyatt wrote: Please reserve a 16 way or above for 2005 already then for crafty. >On June 29, 2004 at 07:28:11, Peter Berger wrote: > >>Was there any reason to believe that Crafty would have a big hardware advantage? >> >>It doesn't surprise me that ChessBase has similar abilities to organize fast >>hardware as Bob Hyatt. >> >>The only ones who will truely suffer are the ones who have to use the default >>hardware, playing against opponents with 10 times faster systems ... >> >>Peter > > >With more time we would have had an advantage. 8-way was doable but not on a >30-day notice. 16-way and beyond was also doable given enough time... > >But the good news is that we have a little advantage anyway, since we will >really be running a 64 bit program and the processors are a tad faster to boot. >IE at least we don't enter with a disadvantage of any kind. :) > >Also we know that my parallel search works well on this box. The others will be >a mystery...
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