There is an easy way to enforce computational limits. Ask everyone to run on an identical AWS instance. Nevertheless, I’m against identical hardware tournaments except as a special rare exception.
From: Computer-go [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of David Doshay Sent: Saturday, October 10, 2015 10:31 AM To: [email protected] Subject: *****SPAM***** Re: [Computer-go] KGS bot tournaments - what are your opinions? I agree completely that there is no way to enforce computational limits over the internet. I am against ‘identical hardware’ tournaments because people have worked to get their programs working on the hardware they have, and some people will be on the other side of any hardware decision, Mac v.s. PC being the most obvious. I am left wondering what the point is for such a tournament. Is it to show who is the most efficient programmer? Is it to show how these programs might run on somebody’s home computer? These things are not important for research code that is not intended for resale. Cheers, David G Doshay [email protected] On 10, Oct 2015, at 8:33 AM, Peter Drake <[email protected]> wrote: I'm also for no limits, if only because there's no way to enforce them. If there is to be a limited division, I'd like to see all programs run on identical hardware. On Fri, Oct 9, 2015 at 6:07 AM, Hiroshi Yamashita <[email protected]> wrote: Hi Nick, I'd like no limit. Restriction will lose a chance of massive computer's programming. But one thread limit tournament once a year may be interesting. I like (2), and (3) is nice, but I'm already happy with your reports! Regards, Hiroshi Yamashita _______________________________________________ Computer-go mailing list [email protected] http://computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go -- Peter Drake https://sites.google.com/a/lclark.edu/drake/ _______________________________________________ Computer-go mailing list [email protected] http://computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go
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