I assume you are on a unix based system since you are talking aboing nicing a job. Good. I can easily deal with Mac's or Linux for this.
What I would do is bundle up everything into a tarball and have it all set up and ready to go, so that it would not be much work on your part. The tarball would consist of: 1. FatMan binary modifed to support LONG levels. 2. autotest binary (or if you have a tclkit just the kit.) 3. copy of mogo. 4. a sqlite database that already has the registry set up for you. 5. A script that starts the tester for you. 6. A script that extracts the results so they can be mailed. You could mail the results periodically, whenever it was convenient for you. I would probably also include a copy of mogo and gnugo just so that every test is running the exact same binaries. I increased the memory usage of FatMan so that these tests could run and the main pool of nodes required for the in memory tree takes only 134 megs of memory. However, each copy of FatMan would require this much memory. It's not clear to me how much this was effect your system or step on your cache. I have no idea of the memory requirements of Mogo. We would want to set a copy of Mogo (or perhaps someone already has) on CGOS to get a reference point and we would want to run it exactly the same. On a fast machine, such as my core 2 duo, at the highest level we would test it would take about 20 minutes per move in the opening position. If we turn ON the resign feature of all the programs and considering that it speeds up as the game progresses, we might get in 3 or 4 games per day per machine on the highest 2 levels - of course other game will go faster. In fact, with resign turned on we may get in a lot more games than that, even if the highest level was one of the players because many games are resignable fairly early. I'm still looking at the memory usage, we might get away with cutting the memory usage in half from the values I previously gave you. If you could set up a script to periodically scp the result files to me, I would set up a web page that continuously updates a web page with a graph and crosstable similar to CGOS all-time list. This would be fun - should I start setting this up? - Don terry mcintyre wrote: > I have two linux desktops, a dual AMD with 1 or 2 gigs and a quad Intel 6600 > with 3 gigs RAM; both sit idle much of the time. Can you sketch the > requirements for this test? Will it be using time controls or fixed numbers > of playouts? In the latter case, I can nice the process(es) when need be. > > I've also been considering Amazon's EC2 -- one server-month costs about $72. > > Terry McIntyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > “Wherever is found what is called a paternal government, there is found state > education. It has been discovered that the best way to insure implicit > obedience is to commence tyranny in the nursery.” > > Benjamin Disraeli, Speech in the House of Commons [June 15, 1874] > > ----- 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 > > > > > 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 > > > > > _______________________________________________ > computer-go mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/ > > > > > > > > > ____________________________________________________________________________________ > Looking for last minute shopping deals? > Find them fast with Yahoo! Search. > http://tools.search.yahoo.com/newsearch/category.php?category=shopping > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > computer-go mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/ _______________________________________________ computer-go mailing list [email protected] http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/
