2009 ACCA World Computer Rapid Chess Championships

[bob]

A shared connection is different to having a home network - and if the computers are used by different people I wonder how the other users would react if dad says from now on sorry its my Chess Cluster.

i remain to be convinced let's see someone release a cluster version then we will see what happens.

How is it different? If you can connect to one machine, you can connect to all. You could even add your neighbor's machine if he agreed. And you should know that there are tons of projects (condor, etc) that are built around the idea of using idle machines, but getting out of the way if the real owner needs to run something so that wasted cycles can be used without causing slow-downs if the primary user tries to do something.

Ok lets see - release a crafty that people can do this with - I am sure if they need to set fixed ips etc this will be very easy.

what is "fixed ips" with respect to a program that is going to run on a network???

[Harvey Williamson]

A shared connection is different to having a home network - and if the computers are used by different people I wonder how the other users would react if dad says from now on sorry its my Chess Cluster.

i remain to be convinced let's see someone release a cluster version then we will see what happens.

How is it different? If you can connect to one machine, you can connect to all. You could even add your neighbor's machine if he agreed. And you should know that there are tons of projects (condor, etc) that are built around the idea of using idle machines, but getting out of the way if the real owner needs to run something so that wasted cycles can be used without causing slow-downs if the primary user tries to do something.

Ok lets see - release a crafty that people can do this with - I am sure if they need to set fixed ips etc this will be very easy.

what is "fixed ips" with respect to a program that is going to run on a network???

release your program for a cluster lets see how many get it to work.

[bob]

A shared connection is different to having a home network - and if the computers are used by different people I wonder how the other users would react if dad says from now on sorry its my Chess Cluster.

i remain to be convinced let's see someone release a cluster version then we will see what happens.

How is it different? If you can connect to one machine, you can connect to all. You could even add your neighbor's machine if he agreed. And you should know that there are tons of projects (condor, etc) that are built around the idea of using idle machines, but getting out of the way if the real owner needs to run something so that wasted cycles can be used without causing slow-downs if the primary user tries to do something.

Ok lets see - release a crafty that people can do this with - I am sure if they need to set fixed ips etc this will be very easy.

what is "fixed ips" with respect to a program that is going to run on a network???

release your program for a cluster lets see how many get it to work.

I plan on doing just that. I'll bet the answer is "100%". This is not hard or complicated. Any more than using a machine with more than one CPU is hard to use. Some try to make it harder, I just require that you tell me how many cpus I can use. I plan on the same for the clsuter version except that I will need to know the host names of machines that you are authorized to run on, nothing more.

[Albert Silver]

A shared connection is different to having a home network - and if the computers are used by different people I wonder how the other users would react if dad says from now on sorry its my Chess Cluster.

i remain to be convinced let's see someone release a cluster version then we will see what happens.

How is it different? If you can connect to one machine, you can connect to all. You could even add your neighbor's machine if he agreed. And you should know that there are tons of projects (condor, etc) that are built around the idea of using idle machines, but getting out of the way if the real owner needs to run something so that wasted cycles can be used without causing slow-downs if the primary user tries to do something.

Ok lets see - release a crafty that people can do this with - I am sure if they need to set fixed ips etc this will be very easy.

what is "fixed ips" with respect to a program that is going to run on a network???

release your program for a cluster lets see how many get it to work.

I'm afraid I agree with Bob on this. I remember a few years ago, Bob mentioning that he had several students with multiple CPU desktops (2x Pentiums and the like) to help justify his parallel work, and was scoffed by many here. Time has shown that this was a prelude to the natural direction we are taking.

Cluster exploitation is already unusually common. Think of the SETI stuff one can download, or the Folding@Home. I tend to agree that more and more cluster work will appear over time. Perhaps not so much at home, but certainly in businesses. There is a lot of untapped CPU power in businesses.

Albert

[Marc Lacrosse]

I plan on doing just that.

Please do!

... and if possible do allow windows boxes to be included.

Here at home I have one quad and four duals that I use 100%, 100%, 100%, 30% and 10% for chess (four of them under XP 64 and one under XP 32bits).
I am pretty sure there must be quite a few CCC members who have similar or stronger configurations at home.
And the same must be true for the probably larger audience of master level correspondence players.
And then you have all these strong chess amateurs who have a family with several computers at home that stay unemployed at night ...

Marc

[bob]

I plan on doing just that.

Please do!

... and if possible do allow windows boxes to be included.

Here at home I have one quad and four duals that I use 100%, 100%, 100%, 30% and 10% for chess (four of them under XP 64 and one under XP 32bits).
I am pretty sure there must be quite a few CCC members who have similar or stronger configurations at home.
And the same must be true for the probably larger audience of master level correspondence players.
And then you have all these strong chess amateurs who have a family with several computers at home that stay unemployed at night ...

Marc

I plan on doing a "blind implementation" of the distributed search, so that the underlying transport mechanism is invisible to Crafty, giving the ability to use the normal #ifdef type customizations so that we can add code for windows. This might require some help since all of my clusters here are linux-based, but it should be doable.

[FrancoisK]

Sorry, I did not see your post until now.
Thanks for the proposal ! i 'll be happy if you can help BugChess2 participate

Cheers

François

[sje]

The www.taccl.org site is is no longer there; I get a parking redirection.

[CRoberson]

There is a problem with the site. Josh is looking into it.
Should be up soon. Meanwhile, I'll accept entrants to the tournament
here.

[sje]

Okay, thanks, please sign up Symbolic for August 15/16.