Do you know the Hardware of Fritz and Junior in their match?
Posted: Tue Jun 05, 2007 11:42 am
Do they have the same hardware?
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I believe that you are wrong and hardware was not the main factor for the fact that Junior won WCCC often.nuff wrote:They have not announced the preparation/details publicly but I would expect the Junior camp to have killer hardware, which I suspect accounts for their WCCC wins more than book/engine strength. Look at the measly Dual Intel Core 2 Duo 5160 that the Fritz camp put together to face Kramnik. Compare that to the 32 cores some guy was using in the freestyle or the quad-cores you see in the engineroom every day?
Then how come Junior/Deep Junior is unable to reproduce the same form in the rating lists, engineroom or even freestyle events? If you have Deep Junior at home run an engine tournament and tell us the result. You would have expected the Junior team to at least put a good showing like Rybka through Vas in the engineroom.Uri Blass wrote:I believe that you are wrong and hardware was not the main factor for the fact that Junior won WCCC often.
They has better hardware than most amateurs but I believe that had equal hardware to other professional programs.
Uri
A Xeon 5160 is quad core, so it was an 8 core box. And they run at 3GHz. Not exactly "measly"nuff wrote:They have not announced the preparation/details publicly but I would expect the Junior camp to have killer hardware, which I suspect accounts for their WCCC wins more than book/engine strength. Look at the measly Dual Intel Core 2 Duo 5160 that the Fritz camp put together to face Kramnik. Compare that to the 32 cores some guy was using in the freestyle or the quad-cores you see in the engineroom every day?
The reason may be that the Junior team has a better book for these events.nuff wrote:Then how come Junior/Deep Junior is unable to reproduce the same form in the rating lists, engineroom or even freestyle events? If you have Deep Junior at home run an engine tournament and tell us the result. You would have expected the Junior team to at least put a good showing like Rybka through Vas in the engineroom.Uri Blass wrote:I believe that you are wrong and hardware was not the main factor for the fact that Junior won WCCC often.
They has better hardware than most amateurs but I believe that had equal hardware to other professional programs.
Uri
Hi Ray,Spock wrote:A Xeon 5160 is quad core, so it was an 8 core box. And they run at 3GHz. Not exactly "measly"nuff wrote:They have not announced the preparation/details publicly but I would expect the Junior camp to have killer hardware, which I suspect accounts for their WCCC wins more than book/engine strength. Look at the measly Dual Intel Core 2 Duo 5160 that the Fritz camp put together to face Kramnik. Compare that to the 32 cores some guy was using in the freestyle or the quad-cores you see in the engineroom every day?
According to the german ChessBase website chessbase.de, Fritz will have 8 cpus and Junior 16:emerson4301972 wrote:Do they have the same hardware?
Same article in English http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=3905Mike S. wrote:According to the german ChessBase website chessbase.de, Fritz will have 8 cpus and Junior 16:emerson4301972 wrote:Do they have the same hardware?
http://www.chessbase.de/nachrichten.asp?newsid=6677
"Ursprünglich sollten die beiden Programme auf gleich starken Rechnern spielen. Auf Initiative des Deep Junior-Teams werden die Programme aber nun auf dem für jedes Team bestmöglichen Rechner antreten. Deep Junior spielt auf einem 16-Prozessor-Rechner, Deep Fritz auf einem 8-Prozessor-Rechner."
That means, initially equal hardware was the plan, but following an initiative of the Deep Junior team they will now start with the best possible computer, each.
The rest of the comment puts emphasis on the fact that it is FIDE's first computer(only) match.
The English article does not mention the hardware. I hate to say I told you so but Junior is always likely to have the stronger hardware. Even if Fritz lose the match the $40,000 they pick up and the fact that ChessBase sell both programs means its a win-win situation for ChessBase.Harvey Williamson wrote:Same article in English http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=3905Mike S. wrote:According to the german ChessBase website chessbase.de, Fritz will have 8 cpus and Junior 16:emerson4301972 wrote:Do they have the same hardware?
http://www.chessbase.de/nachrichten.asp?newsid=6677
"Ursprünglich sollten die beiden Programme auf gleich starken Rechnern spielen. Auf Initiative des Deep Junior-Teams werden die Programme aber nun auf dem für jedes Team bestmöglichen Rechner antreten. Deep Junior spielt auf einem 16-Prozessor-Rechner, Deep Fritz auf einem 8-Prozessor-Rechner."
That means, initially equal hardware was the plan, but following an initiative of the Deep Junior team they will now start with the best possible computer, each.
The rest of the comment puts emphasis on the fact that it is FIDE's first computer(only) match.