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Subject: Re: Nalimov Tablebases

Author: Helmut Conrady

Date: 15:31:53 04/04/05

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On April 04, 2005 at 15:20:23, George Tsavdaris wrote:

>On April 04, 2005 at 07:35:51, Renze Steenhuisen wrote:
>
>>On April 04, 2005 at 06:32:14, George Tsavdaris wrote:
>>
>>>>Do you realize how many DVD's that will take?  :)
>>>No:-)
>>> I guessed it will take around 4-5 DVD's. But even 5-15 would not be a big
>>>problem, i want to believe.........
>>>
>>> Can you give a rough approximation of how many GB's are the whole 6
>>>piece.......?
>>
>>Dude!
>>
>>3-men:   62.5 KByte
>>4-men:   29.5 MByte
>>5-men:    6.9 GByte
>>6-men: ~600   GByte (up until now!)
>>
>>You do the math how many DVD's that will be... Only 247 out of 365 of the 6-men
>>are done by the way.
>
>Oops yeah! I incorrectly assumed 100 MB for the whole 5 piece tablebases, while
>this is for a single (the mean value) 5-piece endgame........
>So they should find another storage way for 6 piece tablebase distribution.....
>
>>
>>Cheers!
>>
>>Renze

In 2006 we will probably have harddisks with a capacity over 1 Terabyte, which
will be enough for all 6-men.

Helmut



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