I doubt if SF on 1024 cores is going to score even 50%Lyudmil Tsvetkov wrote:What would be the score between SF on 64 cores and SF on 1024 cores out of 100 games?kranium wrote:The fact that Google has created a chess playing entity that crushes SF is notable (and fascinating).Lyudmil Tsvetkov wrote:From what I gleaned from hardware comparisons, the advantage is 16/1.clumma wrote:That comparison is not straightforward, but this claim does not seem to be true. SF had 64 threads. I'm not up on the latest scaling behavior of the engine but that has got to be near saturation.Lyudmil Tsvetkov wrote:Alpha had considerable hardware advantage
-Carl
Why would one want to run a similar very unfair match?
Only one thing comes to mind: that the company will want to advertise its colossal breakthrough with TPUs and artificial intelligence and then sell its products.
But then, the achievement is not there.
TPUs are not for sale, and (at the moment) are applied only to Googles deep learning and research projects,
except when Google donates them to research for free.
https://techcrunch.com/2017/05/17/the-t ... cientists/
You think the bigger-hardware SF would score less than 64 points?
I guess at least 80.
So what is so new?
They applied some big hardware, that is all.
The real strength of Alpha is 2850, so around spot 97 or so among engines.
97 is not such a bad achievement, after all.
Maybe after some point more cores are counter productive for stockfish.
I also doubt if it is possible to get at least 80 points against stockfish with 64 cores at 1 minute per move.