I hadn't even thought of this; it's a great idea. Since the costs are the same to run n instances for x hours as to run n*x instances for 1 hour, this is something that would not even be possible on BYOH (Bring Your Own Hardware) tournaments.
Thanks for pointing that out, Terry! -Adrian On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 6:06 PM, terry mcintyre <[email protected]>wrote: > Homogenous HPC clusters rented by the hour open up the possibility of > running n-1 instances of each program. > > An entire tournament with n entrants could be completed in a few hours, > regardless of the size of n. Each participant would play each other > participant twice; once as black, once as white. This would require n*(n-1) > instances. > > It would be really cool to watch n simultaneous games on a video wall. > > Nick Wedd, is it feasible to do this on KGS? Would each entrant have to > have n-1 separate KGS IDs? > > Terry McIntyre <[email protected]> > > Unix/Linux Systems Administration > Taking time to do it right saves having to do it twice. > > > Terry McIntyre <[email protected]> > > > > _______________________________________________ > Computer-go mailing list > [email protected] > http://dvandva.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/computer-go >
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