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Subject: Re: What kind of tablebases could you have with 11 terabytes of storage?

Author: James Robertson

Date: 18:54:00 07/26/99

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On July 26, 1999 at 14:49:33, José de Jesús García Ruvalcaba wrote:

>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.

If you finger Crafty on ICC, it says 20GB for all 5-man tablebases.

James



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