Author: Helmut Conrady
Date: 04:36:34 04/05/05
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On April 04, 2005 at 22:12:56, Robert Hyatt wrote: >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... Sometimes ago Guy Haworth made an estimation of about 1,3 GB. Note, that Eugene Nalimov will NOT generate 5+1-men. Helmut
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