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Subject: Re: Nalimov Tablebases

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 19:12:56 04/04/05

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On April 04, 2005 at 21:56:21, Mike Hood wrote:

>On April 04, 2005 at 18:31:53, Helmut Conrady wrote:
>
>>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
>
>Really, Helmut? I think you're being too optimistic about the increase in hard
>disk sizes. If you're right I'll buy you a beer at my local pub. If not, I
>expect you to pay.


I'd bet that 1.0 TB will be too small.  If you were to say 2.0 TB would be
enough, I would probably agree...



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