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Subject: Re: Nalimov Tablebases

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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