I don't agree the first two games were that easy. In the second game the bot was ahead most of the game and failed in life and death in the top right corner.
It needed more CPU power probably. It is a pity that you couldn't rent a better computer. The amazon cloud was 26 ECU (1 ECU = 1 core 1GHz) iirc. As MF can make use of parallelism using a shared tree (up to 32 threads), but not using multi-nodes via MPI which is worse that one node according to David Fotland). The "26 ECU" spec lacks the most important information to me. How many nodes, thread, cycles, Kplayouts/sec .. Can the MF binary you own log this kind of information? A good CPU for crunching (but still i7, not Xeon with multi-socket mobo) such as an i7-980 3.33 overclocked at 4GHz would count as 6x4 = 24 ECU, but run 12 threads. I guess the amazon machine was less performant than that. I agree with Petr that the censoring was not just strange but probably lowered the level (computer-go wise) of the remarks compared to what we are used to in KGS tournaments. Maybe, its the price of having near 500 observers, which is a great achievement we all must be happy with. Thank you to the organizers and congrats to John since it wasn't that easy. Great job. Jacques. _______________________________________________ Computer-go mailing list [email protected] http://dvandva.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/computer-go
