Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 08:53:07 08/15/05
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On August 15, 2005 at 11:45:49, mike schoonover wrote: >to:prof. bob (craftystien) hyatt >hi prof., >its alive! >you,ve created a monster. >:) >mike As I've said before, even after CCT7, it can play chess. I don't predict tournament results since playing the games is what counts anyway. All I've predicted is that Crafty would be fast, and play well. Beyond that, it could lose every remaining game. But it's certainly fast on this hardware, the "usual suspect" comments notwithstanding. These speeds are pretty ridiculous, even for someone used to supercomputing-level speeds. But the fastest Cray Blitz ever hit was 7.0M nodes per second on a 32 processor T932 vector box... We are now in the twilight zone of search speeds, and there are significantly faster boxes around, not to mention quad cores in 06, which is right around the corner... I'll bet I can get at least an 8-way quad-core box for the next WCCC event, if there is a next WCCC event. At the present level of competency, that is not a given by any measure... that should push the speeds to 64M and beyond, even assuming no clock speed improvement which is very likely to be more than pessimistic. Ought to see 3ghz opterons next year I would hope.
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