Author: Bruce Moreland
Date: 23:28:12 09/08/99
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On September 08, 1999 at 21:02:58, syed wrote: >I have a few questions regarding the recently concluded World Computer Chess >Championship in Paderborn: > >1.) Is it required that all programs be participating on equal hardware, in >terms of processor/s, RAM etc? No. >2.) Do PC based programs like Junior have to be modified to deal with programs >like Dark Thought, CilkChess which employ multi-threading, multi-processing etc? >Or are they already equipped to handle this? Dark Thought showed up on a single processor Alpha workstation. Junior showed up on a four-processor Xeon server the size of a small refrigerator. CilkChess had something big, I don't know what. There were at least four 4x multiprocessor Xeon systems (mine included), and a few massively parallel things. bruce
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