Strongest chess event ever - TODAY

[Yar]

http://www.grappa.univ-lille3.fr/icga/t ... php?id=198

Deep Sjeng: 56 node cluster
Rybka: 54 node cluster
Shredder: 8 core 3.2Ghz Nehalem
Equinox: don't know, at least 8x 2.66Ghz Xeon

Timecontrol 60 + 10.

http://www.soloajedrez.com/wccc2009

I think Rybka runs on 52 core cluster:
Four octal machines (2 Skulltrail's @ 4 and 3.8 GHz, 1 Xeon X5460 @ 3.8 GHz, 1 x Xeon X5450 @3.6 GHz) and 5 Nehalem Quads (Core i7 920 3.9 - 4.1 GHz)

With best regards,
Yar

[Yar]

http://www.grappa.univ-lille3.fr/icga/t ... php?id=198
Timecontrol 60 + 10.
http://www.soloajedrez.com/wccc2009

How many rounds ?

[Gian-Carlo Pascutto]

5 total I think. 6 players

[Rémi Coulom]

http://www.grappa.univ-lille3.fr/icga/t ... php?id=198

Deep Sjeng: 56 node cluster
Rybka: 54 node cluster
Shredder: 8 core 3.2Ghz Nehalem
Equinox: don't know, at least 8x 2.66Ghz Xeon

Timecontrol 60 + 10.

http://www.soloajedrez.com/wccc2009

That tournament is not relayed live, unfortunately. If anybody could send results and game records to me, I could update the ICGA web site.

Rémi

[Uri Blass]

Certainly not the strongest chess event.

I believe correspondence chess tournament events when most players use rybka for analysis are at higher level.

Maybe the strongest computer chess event but I am even not sure about it and I am even not sure that it is stronger than WCCC.

Even if Rybka is stronger on a cluster you should remember that Junior does not participate so it is possible that the average level of WCCC is higher.

Uri

[bob]

Why is it that there are only four participants as there seems to be a lot of protests before on having the hardware limit? They seem to be afraid of losing. For this reason I admire the author of Shredder for joining almost all major competitions I'm aware of without afraid of losing, unlike Fritz for example.

It would have been much better if there's a lot of other participants like Cluster Toga, Zappa, Thinker, Diep, Crafty, etc.. It would have been more exciting.

By the way, good luck . I'm cheering for Deep Sjeng on this one. Spoil the Rybka domination.

I would love to play in these events. But they are too expensive, last too long, and are simply impractical to attend for someone that actually has a job that is not computer-chess related.

[swami]

Certainly not the strongest chess event.

I believe correspondence chess tournament events when most players use rybka for analysis are at higher level.Uri

Do you know where I can get freely downloadable database of Pgn's/cbh's from correspondence games?

[bob]

Will a cluster version also use better the Threads like on a core i7 cpu?
core i7 = 4cores/8threads.

JP.

There might be some use for the fake processors to handle the communication with the clients.

But you cannot expect the actual program to get faster from HT. HT just splits up the real processors in half, so there is no real extra horsepower there to make use of, so to speak.

After having tested on a couple of i7 systems, HT is no better today than it was when it was introduced in the PIV. With good process schedulers, such as what is done in Linux, you can safely enable HT so long as you only start one real thread per real CPU. The process scheduler will at least schedule one physical thread per physical core, which is what we want to see.

[bob]

http://www.grappa.univ-lille3.fr/icga/t ... php?id=198

Deep Sjeng: 56 node cluster
Rybka: 54 node cluster
Shredder: 8 core 3.2Ghz Nehalem
Equinox: don't know, at least 8x 2.66Ghz Xeon

Timecontrol 60 + 10.

http://www.soloajedrez.com/wccc2009

That tournament is not relayed live, unfortunately. If anybody could send results and game records to me, I could update the ICGA web site.

Rémi

What is wrong with this picture?

You have to ask someone else to provide information so that you can update the ICGA web site? Talk about organizational skills, the ICGA doesn't seem to have any. Of course this is not exactly a news flash for those of us that have been involved with these events for any length of time.

Jeez...

[fern]

Much luck for Djeng. "He" will need it.

My best
Fern