On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 7:44 PM, David Fotland <[email protected]>wrote:
> For a big SMP or cluster, the program is tuned somewhat for the > environment. If the OS is unusual it might be necessary to compile the > program specifically for that machine. Both of these are large barriers to > entry. I won’t put my source code into the cloud to be compiled there. My > engine only runs on Windows or windows emulation since I use windows > threading, not posix threading, and I use the Microsoft MPI library. > > > > If the cloud system you are using is running Windows server 2008, then I > could participate. Otherwise your proposal to standardize hardware may > just become a way to exclude commercial programs. > Or to exclude mac programs or linux programs, etc. > > > Regards, > > > > David > > > > *From:* [email protected] [mailto: > [email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Oliver Lewis > *Sent:* Wednesday, September 29, 2010 4:47 AM > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* Re: [Computer-go] Homogenous environment for Computer Go > tournaments > > > > Adrian > > Can you give us a rough estimate of how much it would cost, per entrant, to > run the programmes on a heavyweight hardware configuration (of your choice)? > > Oliver > > On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 12:52 PM, Petr Baudis <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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. > > _______________________________________________ > 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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