Author: José de Jesús García Ruvalcaba
Date: 11:49:33 07/26/99
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On July 26, 1999 at 14:08:44, Michel Langeveld wrote: >On July 26, 1999 at 14:05:08, José de Jesús García Ruvalcaba wrote: > >>On July 26, 1999 at 11:24:58, Paul Richards wrote: >> >>>IBM announced a new Enterprise Storage Server that scales up to 11 terabytes. >>>Just wondering what some idly rich chess fanatic could do with that. :) >> >> I could be wrong, but it seems to me that full uncompressed six-men tablebases >>would barely fit in 11 terabytes. >>José. > >If I'm not wrong the the size of all 5 men tablebases should represent one 6 men >tablebase. The size of all commonly used tablebases is about 5Gb compressed. It is 5.9Gb, and it is not even full five-men tablebases. >So >I think the size of a one 6 men compressed endgame should fit under 10Gb... > >Michel Langeveld 1870 files (according to my computations which can be wrong) are required for full six-men tablebases. If we take them uncompressed, I think we are close to 11Tb. José.
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