Author: Albert Silver
Date: 06:02:35 11/23/04
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On November 23, 2004 at 08:16:11, Richard Pijl wrote:
>On November 23, 2004 at 07:11:23, Albert Silver wrote:
>
>>On November 23, 2004 at 06:53:13, Richard Pijl wrote:
>>
>>>On November 23, 2004 at 06:36:43, Albert Silver wrote:
>>>
>>>>On November 23, 2004 at 02:20:11, Tony Werten wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>On November 22, 2004 at 14:57:09, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>On November 22, 2004 at 14:27:50, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>Hard at work.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>--
>>>>>>>GCP
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Hard at work knocking everyone else, not hard at work making his own stuff
>>>>>>better, unfortunately. Same as _always_.
>>>>>
>>>>>Really ? I would think if someone finished 3rd at the worldchampionships and
>>>>>wins the dutch open, he did make his own stuff better ?
>>>>>
>>>>>Tony
>>>>
>>>>If I recall, at the WC Diep was running on some 500 machines. If you put Crafty
>>>>on that many, I know where I'm placing my money.
>>>>
>>>
>>>Diep was running on a Quad Opteron 2.0 Ghz.
>>>Crafty was running on a Quad Opteron 2.4 Ghz.
>>>See http://www.cs.biu.ac.il/games/
>>>Richard.
>>
>>I stand corrected. There was some event where he had it running on some 500 CPUs
>>though, I thought it was the WC.
>>
>
>It was the WC in Graz, 8 months earlier. But running on those big systems didn't
>bring as much as some people (including himself) expected. He wrote an article
>in Dutch about it: http://home.hetnet.nl/~kipu13/diepsuperdiep.html
>Richard.
He wasn't the only one. I'm sure most of us thought it would steamroll the
competition from sheer depth alone, but the bugs due to the parallel processing
were obviously too severe to do this. Maybe he'll work harder on this and have
better success the next time.
Albert
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