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

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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