i am going to assume that donated hardware violates the spirit of "the best hardware under $5000", correct?
s. On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 12:17 PM, David Fotland <[email protected]> wrote: > I can confirm that John was playing a version running on a 4-core 2.2 GHz, > Core2 Quad. The engine had a few minor changes since Kanazawa, but no > significant changes in strength. > > Your best chance would be to get the biggest SMP machine you can. Many > Faces' cluster code is broken, and there is no guarantee I can fix it before > the end of the year. > > Regards, > > David > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [email protected] [mailto:computer-go- >> [email protected]] On Behalf Of Darren Cook >> Sent: Tuesday, November 02, 2010 2:49 AM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: [Computer-go] Many Faces vs. Tromp >> >> Seemingly in preparation for the shodan go bet event (being held at the >> end of December in central London): >> http://www.gokgs.com/gameArchives.jsp?user=tromp&year=2010&month=10 >> >> 3-1 to Tromp :-( >> But better than 4-0 :-) >> >> I think ManyFaces2 is a recent version of the software, running on >> 4-cores. (ManyFaces1 runs on 12-cores, which is the one with the 2d >> ranking [1].) >> >> Incidentally, according to this page, and assuming John is a European >> 2-dan, then the program needs to be KGS 4-dan to have a 50% chance: >> http://senseis.xmp.net/?RankWorldwideComparison >> >> Darren >> >> [1]: http://www.gokgs.com/graphPage.jsp?user=ManyFaces1 >> >> -- >> Darren Cook, Software Researcher/Developer >> >> http://dcook.org/gobet/ (Shodan Go Bet - who will win?) >> http://dcook.org/work/ (About me and my work) >> http://dcook.org/blogs.html (My blogs and articles) >> _______________________________________________ >> 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
