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Which servers would be the best to run games Stockfish vs Stockfish for example?
The C5a look good to me, but I am not an expert ...
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Then get yourself a good case, and power supply, a good mainboard, a powerful 16-core CPU (at least; so you can run 16 games/32 engines at the same time), and 32 - 128 GB of RAM depending on how big you want your hash tables to be (on short time controls, 512 MB per engine is enough). Install Linux on it (Mint if you want to make it easy, Debian Testing if you want to build from scratch), with VNC server and control it from your desktop computer.
May I ask why these CPU in particular?jdart wrote: ↑Fri Nov 13, 2020 3:19 am If you are looking at Amazon instances, what you probably want for chess is the c6g instances (see https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/).
But it gets pretty expensive pretty fast running these. They are good for short-term use if you don't want to buy a box.
--Jon