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]>
>>
>>
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