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George Tsavdaris wrote: ↑Thu Aug 16, 2018 10:10 pm Finally they have found the issue, apparently the GPUs were severely got overheated(the case was too small and had just 1 fan for 2 GTX 1080 Ti, 500 Watt with 1 fan in a small case!) and affected in a big way nodes per second(there were even cases with 75% reduction of normal nodes per second), performance anyway, of the NNs.
Problem was even more serious for Leela as she had this aggressive pruning thing setting that made the situation worse. Both NNs were crippled by this and Leela even more because of this aggressive thing.

In the last 6 games that they have fixed this(not that elegantly since they had to reduce speed of GPUS to 70% so NNs get 70% of the true power but at least there are not any more the throttling issues) Leela has 5.5/6 after the fix! In the previous 19 games she had just 2 wins.

Too bad for TCEC that they haven't fixed this sooner.

fersbery wrote: ↑Fri Aug 17, 2018 3:30 am Yes, the video cards were over-heating resulting in weak play by Leela. After reducing their speed to 70% (so they don't overheat that much) Leela recovered it's normal level and won most matches greatly increasing it's qualifying chance. Maybe it's too late now, but at least the problem was found.

carldaman wrote: ↑Fri Aug 17, 2018 5:30 am

fersbery wrote: ↑Fri Aug 17, 2018 3:30 am Yes, the video cards were over-heating resulting in weak play by Leela. After reducing their speed to 70% (so they don't overheat that much) Leela recovered it's normal level and won most matches greatly increasing it's qualifying chance. Maybe it's too late now, but at least the problem was found.

Then the fair solution would be to replay those games where Leela was adversely affected by the faulty TCEC conditions.
Not that I expect it to happen.

fersbery wrote: ↑Fri Aug 17, 2018 5:55 am
I think that it's ok as it is since this was an "experimental" season. There is no hurry for results, they will come alone once tournament organizers have more experience with GPU hardware and Leela project have better networks and bugs fixed.

kranium wrote: ↑Fri Aug 17, 2018 2:07 am

George Tsavdaris wrote: ↑Thu Aug 16, 2018 10:10 pm Finally they have found the issue, apparently the GPUs were severely got overheated(the case was too small and had just 1 fan for 2 GTX 1080 Ti, 500 Watt with 1 fan in a small case!) and affected in a big way nodes per second(there were even cases with 75% reduction of normal nodes per second), performance anyway, of the NNs.
Problem was even more serious for Leela as she had this aggressive pruning thing setting that made the situation worse. Both NNs were crippled by this and Leela even more because of this aggressive thing.

In the last 6 games that they have fixed this(not that elegantly since they had to reduce speed of GPUS to 70% so NNs get 70% of the true power but at least there are not any more the throttling issues) Leela has 5.5/6 after the fix! In the previous 19 games she had just 2 wins.

Too bad for TCEC that they haven't fixed this sooner.

Let me get this straight...they're tweaking the hardware to help Lc0 while Div 3 is running?

whereagles wrote: ↑Fri Aug 17, 2018 10:10 am think it's in the rules that tweaks can be made within season if a play-affecting issue is found.

Milos wrote: ↑Thu Aug 16, 2018 5:46 pm

Laskos wrote: ↑Thu Aug 16, 2018 2:54 pm

Milos wrote: ↑Thu Aug 16, 2018 2:03 pm

Laskos wrote: ↑Thu Aug 16, 2018 10:28 am Probably in these conditions, Lc0 is already close to SF8 on 2 cores. When it will achieve the level of SF8 on 4 cores, I could casually say "Lc0 is the level of SF8", like people are used to say about engines, meaning on home reasonable balanced CPU/GPU hardware configuration and blitz time controls.

You keep repeating that but it doesn't make it true. A price-wise balanced CPU/GPU configuration is 16 threads on 8 cores Ryzen vs. 1060 (plus cheap CPU).
Power (TDP) balanced one is 32 threads (16 cores) Ryzen (Threadripper) vs 1060 (plus lower power CPU).

The Nvidia 10x series is 2 year old, and the release of significantly better 11x series is delayed only by crypto-maniacs digging fairy tales. It will be out anyway soon, a question of few months, so my flawed "reasonability" still seems better than your trolling.

You are the one who is trolling with your 5+ years old CPU (4 generations old) comparing to 2 years old GPU (current state-of-the-art).
When you have no arguments (to my spot on comparison) then you yell trolling and rent about crypto-maniacs and make hypothetical comparisons with hardware that is not yet out and with uncertain prices and performance.

Laskos wrote: ↑Fri Aug 17, 2018 11:46 am Nvidia 11 series is just 2-3 months from now, and as we know, they will come with some massive improvements. And by the way, my OC i7 4790 is at least on par with say stock i7 7700. All in all, you nitpick (with misplaced wording) on the general picture that on fairly balanced CPU/GPU home hardware, Lc0 with a good net is on par with SF8 on 1-2 threads in blitz. And probably soon will be on par with SF8 on full CPU, and one could casually say "Lc0 is SF8 level". Generally, behave, and don't use misplaced language.