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Subject: Re: WCCC9 and WMCCC Paderborn June 1999

Author: Ulrich Tuerke

Date: 02:22:32 02/25/99

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On February 24, 1999 at 19:29:02, Dann Corbit wrote:

>...
>I disagree.  While ELO per node will simply award the prize to slow searchers
>and penalize the fast searchers, this sort of measure (ELO/Dollar) will allow
>people who have to come with wimpy machines a shot at something.  IIRC, last
>year some people were competing against 767MHz alphas using K200's.  Seem fair
>to you?
>
>It would be a measure of some sort for the price/performance mark.  And it is
>not strictly a measure of the price of the machine.  If that were true, then two
>different programs would perform identically on identical hardware.  This is
>clearly not the case, as a glance at any extended contest or the SSDF results
>will show you.

This would not penalize programs which are just poorly designed and perform
badly. IMO, not the nodes/ses should be the criterion but the performance of the
used hardware.

May be we need a title "best ratio ELO/MHz"  or ELO/MIPS ? -:)



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