Another question ... does more playouts really provide a *consistent* improvement on the ELO score, especially for those strongest programs? I remember that some programs running on laptop rank very high in the Olympaids, that seems imply that speed simply doesn't matter here ...
Don and the list had conducted a study on the matter a few years ago: http://cgos.boardspace.net/study/13/index.html http://cgos.boardspace.net/study/ If the programs with the laptop have won, it's because software is currently improving much faster than hardware, so the better program can overcome this kind of hurdles (plus the fact that a cluster is *much* less efficient for go than the same computing power on a single computer would be). Jonas _______________________________________________ Computer-go mailing list [email protected] http://dvandva.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/computer-go
