yeah, it's a pretty fantastic idea, terry. kgs supports simul play -- i doubt it supports n simul players playing one another with identical time limits in tournament mode. ;)
but it's a cool idea. s. On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 9:10 PM, Adrian Petrescu <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Computer-go mailing list > [email protected] > http://dvandva.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/computer-go >
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