Not sure what you're trying to imply... Linux is a first-class citizen on all the candidates floated thus far, and I really can't imagine any Go bot relying on OS X-specific APIs.
On 2010-09-29, at 7:13 PM, Don Dailey <[email protected]> wrote: > > > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Computer-go mailing list > [email protected] > http://dvandva.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/computer-go
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