Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 09:55:32 06/29/04
Go up one level in this thread
On June 29, 2004 at 12:23:41, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: >On June 29, 2004 at 11:59:42, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >Please reserve a 16 way or above for 2005 already then for crafty. I'll do my best... Although why it matters to you is beyond me... seems you would be more interested in trying to handle your _own_ problems... > >>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...
This page took 0 seconds to execute
Last modified: Thu, 15 Apr 21 08:11:13 -0700
Current Computer Chess Club Forums at Talkchess. This site by Sean Mintz.