Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 07:38:00 09/02/99
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On September 02, 1999 at 05:00:16, José Carlos wrote: >On September 02, 1999 at 01:05:29, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>On September 01, 1999 at 06:48:43, José Carlos 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.. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>>Sorry if these questions have already been answered and I have missed them. >>>>>Yours sincerely >>>>>Ray MacFadyen >>> >>> How strong is Cray Blitz at this moment? Have you continued to improve it? >>> >>> José C. >> >> >>Running on a 60M supercomputer, it is far stronger than Crafty (It can search >>roughly 5-10M nodes per second on a T932). No, it has received no work since >>I started Crafty in 1995, although some things would likely be ported over if >>I ever got the urge (R=2 null move, etc...) > > I'd love to see it fighting again... it would be nice! :) > > José C. Yes.. but the headaches are enormous. Try getting someone to give you dedicated access to a $60,000,000 machine to play chess. In years past, ACM events were set up to play _only_ at night or on weekends for those of us (chess 4.x, chaos, cray blitz, etc.) using supercomputers, because getting 'prime time' on them is essentially impossible. Then, once you get time scheduled for a tournament (hard) you have to try to beg/borrow/steal time on the machine for testing. This is even harder...
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