I 100% agree with Magnus. Until now, the clusters have many times "bitten the dust". The current 2010 9x9 winner, MyGoFriend ran on a laptop and the current 2009 19x19 winner, Zen, was running on a desktop.
The best programs are still 7 handicap stones away from human pros and that is gigantic since the value of a handicap stone increases as strength increases. So there is still much more "basic science" to do than "engineering" before computer go gets real strength. Hardware may be the only way in a decade, but it is not the lowest hanging fruit today. I would keep existing tournaments as they are. But if someone wants to create a new tournament, I suggest ironing out all the technical problems first. He/she can convince us running a demo tournament including all combinations of gtp supporting program binaries: (3x) Windows and Linux, Java binaries. (2x) GUI and text mode binaries. (2x) MPI and shared memory models. I suggest to make the tournament available live on KGS. When all is ironed we should only have to replace the dummy binaries by latest programs. Jacques. PD. I can provide dummy binaries of both GUI and text mode Windows engines for testing. _______________________________________________ Computer-go mailing list [email protected] http://dvandva.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/computer-go
