Author: Vincent Diepeveen
Date: 04:50:11 02/25/99
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On February 25, 1999 at 05:22:32, Ulrich Tuerke wrote: > >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 ? -:) Well, i meant it as a joke. WMCC title is a big joke too in this tournament. You win this tournament, or you don't win this tournament. Nowadays hardware is quite fast. If crafty wins this tournament, then i won't say: it is because it gets 10M nodes a second. Remember, winner takes it all. However there are gonna be 2 winners here. At 4 processors i get less than 70k a second, where others at a poor microcomputer that was used previous WCCC already get that number. Now the question is of course. How fair are 4 processors Xeon versus 1 brandnew K6-3, prob clocked to something like 500+ Mhz, where most will get over 0.5M nodes a second. What is the diff of 500k nodes a second versus 10M nodes a second? Both search very deep. It'll slowly seems like quality of programs is more important than quantity. Any thoughts about that? Greetings, Vincent
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