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Subject: Re: WCCC: Almost no hardware advantage for Crafty

Author: Vincent Lejeune

Date: 09:33:41 06/29/04

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On June 29, 2004 at 11:59:42, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>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...


I saw that Crafty was disconnected many times when playing on icc with the
4*opteron, some days ago. Is the prolem solved ? Why don't use currently the
4*opteron on ICC ?

Thanks

Vincent Lejeune



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