Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 22:03:38 09/01/99
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On September 01, 1999 at 19:34:13, Heiko Mikala wrote: >On August 30, 1999 at 22:45:42, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>On August 30, 1999 at 21:17:08, Ray MacFadyen wrote: >> >>>I am curious as to the current situation with cray blitz. >>>1.Is it still operational? >> >>yes... >> >>>2.Could it be made operational reasonably easily? >> >>already is... >> >>>3.Would it ever be possible to set it up to play on ICC ? >> >>with some work, as it was written way before there was an xwindows, or an >>xboard/winboard protocol... but that could be added. But the _real_ issue >>is who would supply a Cray to use to play on ICC, when they sell for 30-60 >>million dollars? >> >>That is what led to crafty and PCs... the inability to get significant time >>on a cray to run reasonable tests.. > >Hi Bob! > >Will we ever see a "Crafty Blitz"? Meaning Crafty playing on a Cray in a >tournament? Crafty doesn't fit the cray very well... IE it would actually be slower than a good 64 bit micro, because crafty doesn't vectorize at all, and it takes that to make the cray really scream. The vectorized stuff in Cray Blitz took _years_ of work to get to the state we left it in... I'm not looking at this issue, because getting time on a Cray T90 is just too difficult... that is why I started over on the micro platforms in the first place in late 1995 after the last ACM event. > >Any plans to let the original Cray Blitz play in a tournament again? No... reason above. > > >Another question I always wanted to ask: Why the name "Crafty"? >Does this word have a real meaning in english? Or is it "Cray" with an "ft" >inserted? ;-) > it was just a name I came up with to use as a handle on ICC when I first started there. I think my first thought was 'cagey'... but that was already used, and 'crafty' seemed like a reasonable second choice... as in "that was some 'crafty' play..." or "that was pretty crafty..." > >(And, by the way, why is there no wcrafty 16.17 executable on your ftp-site?) communication failure... I didn't ask Eugene or Jason to compile. Will do so. > > >Greetings, > >Heiko.
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