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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