It should be "built". The funny thing is that I've been cutting and
pasting this description for the last several tournaments, and nobody
has spotted the typo before.
Peter Drake
http://www.lclark.edu/~drake/
On May 10, 2011, at 4:17 AM, Darren Cook wrote:
Orego, probably running on one of the five nodes of a custom Linux
cluster build by PSSC Labs: ...
^^^^^ built?
I'm not sure about that.
If someone downloads the source files for GNU Go, and runs "build" on
his system, I would say "he has done a build", and I would call the
resulting executable "a build of GNU Go". I don't know if this
usage is
also normal for hardware clusters - I would say that the physical
cluster was "built by PSSC Labs", but there must be software
involved to
get them to talk to each other, and I might say that this software
was
"a build by PSSC Labs".
Hello Nick, Hideki,
A lovely ambiguous sentence! "build" if you intended it to be a noun
(a
build of something, (done) by someone), "built" if you intended it
to be
a verb ("a something (that was) built by someone"). Perhaps a comma
after "build" would make it clear you intended it as a noun.
However, I couldn't find a single dictionary (*) using "build" as a
noun
for anything except the meaning of physique. Can anyone find one?
I think the software meaning of "build" (i.e. the resulting software
from the process of compiling and linking a program) is
well-established. But I'm at a loss to know if hardware installations
would also be referred to as a build.
Darren
*: Yes, not even my own MLSN (http://dcook.org/mlsn/) project :-)
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