Preliminary entries for the WCCC and Olympiad

[Gian-Carlo Pascutto]

http://www.grappa.univ-lille3.fr/icga/t ... php?id=192
http://www.grappa.univ-lille3.fr/icga/t ... php?id=198

More entries in the open event than in the WCCC...

One of the entries is from the author of Lion...

[Rémi Coulom]

http://www.grappa.univ-lille3.fr/icga/t ... php?id=192
http://www.grappa.univ-lille3.fr/icga/t ... php?id=198

More entries in the open event than in the WCCC...

One of the entires is from the "author" of Lion...

I may have missed some early entries, as I added myself to the registration e-mail a bit late. I expect at least Hiarcs should have registered. We will probably have to wait until Joke returns on April 20th in order to have a final list of preliminary entries. If any programmer has already sent a registration, please tell me, and I will add you to the list of participants.

Rémi

[Gian-Carlo Pascutto]

I may have missed some early entries, as I added myself to the registration e-mail a bit late.

Ok.

Junior has a dual Nehalem. Interesting, I didn't even knew those were for sale. 1500 Euro a CPU. nice.

[Zach Wegner]

It's brand new, and extremely expensive.

CPU: http://www.mwave.com/mwave/SkuSearch_v2 ... ia=BA31347
Mobo: http://www.ewiz.com/detail.php?p=MB-Z8N ... 79b4f1c0ab

Of course, as you say, clusters are much much cheaper. A box with this is would be $4000+, whereas my cluster-in-progress should have about 24 cores for under $2000, and that's including the very expensive rackmount stuff. But we can't have anybody buying their way to a championship!!

[Harvey Williamson]

I But we can't have anybody buying their way to a championship!!

Just show all the engine customers/users where they can buy an off the shelf cluster and Chess software to easily run on it,

[Harvey Williamson]

http://www.grappa.univ-lille3.fr/icga/t ... php?id=192
http://www.grappa.univ-lille3.fr/icga/t ... php?id=198

More entries in the open event than in the WCCC...

One of the entires is from the "author" of Lion...

I may have missed some early entries, as I added myself to the registration e-mail a bit late. I expect at least Hiarcs should have registered. We will probably have to wait until Joke returns on April 20th in order to have a final list of preliminary entries. If any programmer has already sent a registration, please tell me, and I will add you to the list of participants.

Rémi

Hi Remi,

I can confirm Hiarcs has entered,

Best Wishes,

Harvet

[bob]

I may have missed some early entries, as I added myself to the registration e-mail a bit late.

Ok.

Junior has a dual Nehalem. Interesting, I didn't even knew those were for sale. 1500 Euro a CPU. nice.

A dual nehalem that I can't even find listed yet. I've run on a 5565, and we had an E5520 here for a couple of weeks for testing to run down a couple of BIOS bugs. Last I heard from Intel, the extreme versions were late this year...

[michiguel]

I But we can't have anybody buying their way to a championship!!

Just show all the engine customers/users where they can buy an off the shelf cluster and Chess software to easily run on it,

You smiley seems to indicate that you think your remark was funny, but it is not. You can certainly buy a cluster off the shelf with everything pre-installed if you want. Generally they are more than 10K because they are powerful.

You can also buy two computers, a switch, two cables, and install Linux with some free software. There you have a minicluster. In fact, you do not even have to install anything and run it with parallel knoppix from a CD. You can even run it from a laptop.

Miguel

[Harvey Williamson]

I But we can't have anybody buying their way to a championship!!

Just show all the engine customers/users where they can buy an off the shelf cluster and Chess software to easily run on it,

You smiley seems to indicate that you think your remark was funny, but it is not. You can certainly buy a cluster off the shelf with everything pre-installed if you want. Generally they are more than 10K because they are powerful.

You can also buy two computers, a switch, two cables, and install Linux with some free software. There you have a minicluster. In fact, you do not even have to install anything and run it with parallel knoppix from a CD. You can even run it from a laptop.

Miguel

How many normal computer users reading this forum can understand and do (or can be bothered to do) what you have just suggested?

[krazyken]

I But we can't have anybody buying their way to a championship!!

Just show all the engine customers/users where they can buy an off the shelf cluster and Chess software to easily run on it,

You smiley seems to indicate that you think your remark was funny, but it is not. You can certainly buy a cluster off the shelf with everything pre-installed if you want. Generally they are more than 10K because they are powerful.

You can also buy two computers, a switch, two cables, and install Linux with some free software. There you have a minicluster. In fact, you do not even have to install anything and run it with parallel knoppix from a CD. You can even run it from a laptop.

Miguel

How many normal computer users reading this forum can understand and do (or can be bothered to do) what you have just suggested?

I've tutored people on using computers for a while, and I'd say >60% could, and of those that don't 90% of them know somebody who could do it for them.