Hi!
On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 12:04:10AM -0700, Adrian Petrescu wrote:
> I'm not much of a participant in the field of computer go, but I am an avid
> observer, so it puzzles me when I see things like the recent 9x9 "World
> Championships" being plagued by issues of operator error, hardware
> malfunction, network outages, etc. Even when everything goes smoothly, it's
> hard to take the results too seriously when some programs are running on a
> 16-core dedicated machines, and others are running on the developer's
> personal laptop.
I believe "hardware-open" tournaments are great and should not go
away. But I also think "hardware-fixed" tournaments certainly do have
their place and could provide very useful feedback. These tournamens do
happen sometimes, e.g. the computer go tournament in Tampere this summer
was with fixed hardware. (Well, almost. But at least no clusters.)
If someone would organize a tournament e.g. using the EC2 hardware
platform (and if the OS is UNIXy), Pachi would participate.
--
Petr "Pasky" Baudis
The true meaning of life is to plant a tree under whose shade
you will never sit.
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