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Subject: Re: Regarding CCC discussion level

Author: Omid David Tabibi

Date: 14:25:54 09/09/04

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On September 09, 2004 at 17:17:49, Matthew Hull wrote:

>On September 09, 2004 at 17:11:35, Omid David Tabibi wrote:
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>>On September 09, 2004 at 15:20:49, Matthew Hull wrote:
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>>>On September 09, 2004 at 15:13:25, Omid David Tabibi wrote:
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>>>>On September 08, 2004 at 20:52:31, Dan Honeycutt wrote:
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>>>>>On September 08, 2004 at 14:43:43, Omid David Tabibi wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>The average level of discussion in WCCC is several hundred Elo above that of
>>>>>>CCC.
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>>>>>That's logical since everyone there is an experienced chess programmer whereas
>>>>>CCC caters to all levels.  However, are there topics that you would be willing
>>>>>to discuss at WCCC that you would not be willing to discuss at CCC?
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>>>>Most of the discussions here are relevant to under 2300 rated programs, and
>>>>rarely any ideas of further use are discussed here. In WCCC when you play versus
>>>>another engine, you always engage in some form of discusson with the programmer
>>>>sitting on the other side of the table, or when you are in a restaurant you also
>>>>speak about computer-chess issues with other programmers, etc. Of course most
>>>>programmers don't discuss the details of their "weapon of mass destruction", but
>>>>the discussion level is much higher, and many subjects that are brought up there
>>>>never appear on CCC.
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>>I don't understand what your question has to do with the post you replied to,
>>but here are the answers anyway:
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>I was just trying to elevate the level of discussion on CCC.
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>:)
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>>>So, to how many processors have you scaled Falcon?
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>>Currently 4 processors is the maximum.
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>>>Will it run on 8+ NUMA machine?
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>>No, I don't have acces to such a machine.
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>>>Is it portable (like GNU or Crafty) or is it limited to Windows?
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>>Yes. Most of my parallel tests are on Linux.
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>>Any more questions? :)
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>Can you post speedup data?  We know what Bob has reported.
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>Also, is speedup the same for SMP and NUMA?

I told you, I don't have access to NUMA machine.


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>Thanks.
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>>>>>Dan H.



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