TCEC gui is great now but

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TCEC gui is great now but

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we are missing the metal board :twisted:
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Hai wrote: Fri Aug 03, 2018 9:43 pm we are missing the metal board :twisted:
and the S12 and S13 Archive. :shock:
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And Ivanhoe calculates 2.5 Mn/s on 43 cores? There must be something going totally wrong in that TCEC.
2.5Mn/s has Ivanhoe on my machines on 2 cores, not on 43 cores... what a Top Chess Engine Competition is that?
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milli-nodes per second? :shock: Perhaps it runs on a hand-cranked calculator?
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Has IvanHoe ever really been tested with that many cores before? It seems the scaling is awful after a certain point. Was there not a more modern engine available for that spot?
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tmokonen wrote: Fri Aug 03, 2018 11:36 pm Has IvanHoe ever really been tested with that many cores before? It seems the scaling is awful after a certain point. Was there not a more modern engine available for that spot?
I don't think so. Maybe it can run on 43 threads but it seems to be the same version that has competed a couple of years ago.

Edit: I just started IvanHoe version 999946h-RL on my machine and I had to change TitanicMode to true and edit TitanicCPUSizings to 4 before it ran on multiple threads. Got around 8000k on my machine
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hgm wrote: Fri Aug 03, 2018 11:16 pmmilli-nodes per second?
Big-M is Mega, small-m is milli.
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[quote=pferd post_id=770125 time=1533334644
Edit: I just started IvanHoe version 999946h-RL on my machine and I had to change TitanicMode to true and edit TitanicCPUSizings to 4 before it ran on multiple threads. Got around 8000k on my machine
[/quote]

Then, everything is clear. In this TCEC, they give the uci-command “Threads=43“ to Ivanhoe, which is wrong (the uci-commands are shown, when an engine plays and you click on the small gearbox-icon).
And Ivanhoe doesnt know this command... so he plays in singlecore-mode!
Correct uci-commands would have been:
TitanicMode=true
TitanicCPUSizings=43
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Ras wrote: Sat Aug 04, 2018 12:47 am
hgm wrote: Fri Aug 03, 2018 11:16 pmmilli-nodes per second?
Big-M is Mega, small-m is milli.
Indeed.