Must admit I'm a bit of a comp-chess nut. As an IT officer, I've built a modest cluster which over the last couple months I've dedicated to my OICS server.
But I've recently saved up enough money and building a semi-massive Xeon cluster which I am dedicating to my OIC project.
Short story:
I will have A LOT of cpu's and tons of memory to dedicate. Looking for linux based engines to add to the OICS project. Windows engines are also acceptable as I do have some windows XP && 7 boxen.
My main requirement or hope.. is that the engines are fairly stable. As you can see from the official list, I have tried many engines, but there are about 10% I've tried that while they work, they are not suitable for 24/7 uptime. They either crash, lock up out of book, or what not.
Think now, I have a solid core engine queue which play 24/7 only needing intervention every couple of weeks or less. But while I do try to play and use whatever I can, fi I need to restart the engine after every game, I sadly tend to brush it to the side.
Willing to dedicate Xeon core's for testing, just need the code
Hope this project is useful to at least someone other than myself. Know Wadduuttie has been very nice to play a lot. Matthrew Bradey has also dedicated a lot of his time to my project. In the end I want to offer a service, and a "battle ground" for people just to grind their gears against other engines for testing.
ELO is reported but not concrete, I'm not CCRL. I'm just a place to burn your CPU to see what people have and find strength and weakness.
Which is why from the start I spent so much time just in recording data. I have ever inch of data since inception, and while my code has matured (now including move times). I preserve it all, and in redundancy, to later code can extract what it can.
Always up for recommendations and criticism. Just want to be useful to our cause.
-Josh
