Author: José Carlos
Date: 08:21:33 09/02/99
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On September 02, 1999 at 10:38:00, Robert Hyatt wrote: >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... Yes, that's a pity. We'll keep waiting... José C.
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