Re: [Computer-go] alternative for cgos

2015-01-13 Thread Brian Sheppard
Alas, the limitations of a hosted environment would make participating in Baduk.io a non-starter for me. It is much better to build a selection of standard bots and run tests on my own hardware. Which is what I have done in the absence of CGOS. IMO, running using one’s own hardware/OS/langua

Re: [Computer-go] alternative for cgos

2015-01-13 Thread Chris LaRose
Thanks everyone for all the feedback! Sorry I hijacked the thread! There are definitely some big pros and cons to a hosted, containerized environment for Go bots. I've replied to some comments below: Won’t hosting limit your usability? With cgos I can build and immediately > test on cgos on my d

Re: [Computer-go] alternative for cgos

2015-01-13 Thread Joshua Shriver
If you can send me a binary that would be greatly appreciated. Trying to build some anchors now. -Josh On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 5:11 PM, Hideki Kato wrote: > Shilver, > > I'll be able to run FatMan1, the anchor for 9x9, on my site, if > necessary. Or, it's also possible to send you its binary a

Re: [Computer-go] alternative for cgos

2015-01-13 Thread Hideki Kato
Shilver, I'll be able to run FatMan1, the anchor for 9x9, on my site, if necessary. Or, it's also possible to send you its binary and password so that you can run it on your site. Hideki Joshua Shriver: : >I'll try and get CGOS back online before this weekend. Technically it >should be runn

[Computer-go] CGOS anchor engines

2015-01-13 Thread Joshua Shriver
Anyone have a list of stable, freely downloadable Go engines that I could use as anchors? Name/download/ELO rating would be appreciated. Figured worse case I'd use gnugo for an anchor but would like to have a couple of varying strength. They can run on Windows or Linux. -Josh

Re: [Computer-go] alternative for cgos

2015-01-13 Thread Joshua Shriver
I'll try and get CGOS back online before this weekend. Technically it should be running now, but there were several issues. In order to use it now you take the cgos client for your architecture and you have to specify cgos.computergo.org manually since the binaries are hardcoded to the old boa

Re: [Computer-go] alternative for cgos

2015-01-13 Thread Dave Dyer
I think hosted is a bad idea - anyone developing a bot has a computer and a development environment, and it may not be linux, and the extra step of updating and installing on the host is just sand in the gears. And of course, hosting is not free. ___ Co

Re: [Computer-go] alternative for cgos

2015-01-13 Thread Christoph Birk
On Jan 13, 2015, at 4:52 AM, Woody Folsom wrote: > I would be interested in participating, particularly as a containerized > environment puts me on a more even footing with projects which have a lot > more hardware to throw at the problem. That’s an interesting setting for a tournament but not

Re: [Computer-go] alternative for cgos

2015-01-13 Thread Woody Folsom
I would be interested in participating, particularly as a containerized environment puts me on a more even footing with projects which have a lot more hardware to throw at the problem. Plus, I am in the process of porting my engine from Java to C# and will need to rewrite the interface to the KGS

Re: [Computer-go] alternative for cgos

2015-01-13 Thread Urban Hafner
I can see both advantages and disadvantages to this system. The advantages are that I don't need to have a computer to run the system, and that (presumably) all bots have the same resources at their disposal, so that would level the playing field. The downsides are of course that the bot needs to r