On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 12:55 PM, Hideki Kato <[email protected]> wrote: >>Somehow I feel that these kgs tournaments are for an important part >>decided by the kgs paring algorithm. It's annoying; the olympiad has >>become a hardware contest and the kgs tournaments a lottery. Hardly >>any good tournaments left. (Ok, maybe I'm exaggerating a bit, it's >>still fun to watch :-)) > > I don't think Olympiad is becoming a hardware contest. Zen won the > last Olympiad using a stock 8 core MacPro against MoGo, Fuego, and > MFG, all were powered by computer clusters. Still (and, perhaps, > forever) smart playouts are the key of MC Go programs. Please remeber > the number of cores improves the strength by a logarithmic sense in > Elo scale.
Of course smart playouts are still very important. But when I read things like fuego running on experimental hardware with 100+ threads and shared memory I know my chances. I would say currently the smartest programs running on ordinary machines could probably take one or two doublings, but not much more. My impression is that in the past the cluster programs still suffered from significant mpi code bugs, but the good teams should have solved that by now, and of course none of that matters for monsters with shared memory... > I'd like to agree, however, B or W is a key on 9x9 boards now and I've > introduced draw with 7.0 komi for GPW Cup. Nice! Erik _______________________________________________ Computer-go mailing list [email protected] http://dvandva.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/computer-go
