I'm not sure I am willing to invest this much effort although it's an
appealing idea.     Let me browse the BOINC site a bit.   

I think it's better to start a test - and perhaps expand this to BOINC
later if want to take it even farther.  

- Don


terry mcintyre wrote:
> It might be worth creating a BOINC client. It will take some time to get the 
> infrastructure organized, but the advantage would be the ease of recruiting 
> volunteers: direct them to download a client, and work units will 
> automatically distribute and play whenever the volunteers' screensavers are 
> active. Dozens, hundreds, or even thousands of volunteers could be recruited. 
> This could enable extensive tournaments, testing of playout policies, machine 
> learning experiments, and so forth. For extra "bling", screensavers would 
> display the current game, swapping with real-time status reports of the 
> entire system. 
>
> http://boinc.berkeley.edu/
>  
> Terry McIntyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Don Dailey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: computer-go <[email protected]>
> Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2008 10:11:14 AM
> Subject: Re: [computer-go] Suicide question
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> Michael Williams wrote:
>   
>> It is a very nice graph.  I wish we could see the next 11 doublings.
>>     
> With some help,  I could redo this experiment and add:
>
>    1 or 2 more levels.
>    A version of gnugo with known strength.
>    and/or some fixed version of mogo - which we could simultaneously
> test on CGOS.
>
> I would need an enormous amount of power to complete this with a good
> sample in less than a few months.  
>
> Anybody have any linux machines lying around?     They need to be
> relatively powerful and probably need at least 1 gig of memory due to
> the large tree size I would have to set up.
>
> - Don
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