Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 09:54:27 06/29/04
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On June 29, 2004 at 12:33:41, Vincent Lejeune wrote: >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 ? It should not be "disconnecting". I often play 1 game, and then swap back to the dual xeon while I look at the logs... I see no need to give anyone something to "test against" this close to the WCCC so I don't play much on ICC with the actual tournament version, or tournament hardware, or tournament book. :) > >Thanks > >Vincent Lejeune
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