Arminius 2017-01-01 released

[Volker Annuss]

Arminius 2017-01-01 is out.

http://www.nnuss.de/Hermann/Arminius2017-01-01.zip contains
Arminius2017-01-01-32Bit.exe (not tested)
Arminius2017-01-01-x64.exe (not tested)
Arminius2017-01-01-x64-popcnt.exe (fastest, tested with Windows 7, Core i7 860)

http://www.nnuss.de/Hermann/Arminius201 ... nux.tar.gz
(tested with Ubuntu 16.04, Core i7 5820K)

http://www.nnuss.de/Hermann/Arminius201 ... spi.tar.gz
(tested with Raspbian Jessie, Raspberry Pi 3 Model B)

[Günther Höhne]

Many thanks

Regards
Günther

[Guenther]

Arminius 2017-01-01 is out.

Thanks Volker! That's a good start for 2017.

[mclane]

Popcount version is not running on my system, i7 7500U.

Normal 64 bit version runs ok.

[thunderstruck]

Linux version doesn't run on my Intel i5 (popcount) box.
Maybe it's compiled on new hardware(AVX or BMI2) with 'native' flag.
When I start from command line I get : Illegal instruction (core dumped)

[Volker Annuss]

Popcount version is not running on my system, i7 7500U.

Normal 64 bit version runs ok.

I downloaded the .zip archive on an i5 6200U system with Windows 10. The popcount version runs ok there. The other x64 version (made for core 2 duo and core 2 quad processors) was blocked by avast, sent to them for further inspection and hopefully in 2 hours I will be allowed to run it. But its not my machine, so I will not retry it soon.

[Volker Annuss]

Linux version doesn't run on my Intel i5 (popcount) box.
Maybe it's compiled on new hardware(AVX or BMI2) with 'native' flag.
When I start from command line I get : Illegal instruction (core dumped)

The linux version was compiled with AVX.

Now I replaced the archive with a new one that contains
Arminius (AVX version as before)
Arminius-core_i (non AVX version, very close in speed to the AVX version)
Arminius-core2 (should work with any 64 Bit processor core 2 or later)

No program is tested on a non AVX processsor.

[Colin-G]

Linux version doesn't run on my Intel i5 (popcount) box.
Maybe it's compiled on new hardware(AVX or BMI2) with 'native' flag.
When I start from command line I get : Illegal instruction (core dumped)

The native linux version of Arminius 2017 is working ok in XBoard with AMD A4-5300 cpu and Mint 17 64bit OS.
It works ok both as a linux UCI engine with polygot in XBoard and also as a native XBoard engine.
Default UCI options are shown below

[Modern Times]

Popcount version is not running on my system, i7 7500U.

How odd, it works on my AMD FX8350. Usually if there are issues it would be the othjer way round !

[Colin-G]

The 32bit executable runs ok in Arena on my very old Athlon-XP computer with Windows XP.
That means it will run on any of my computers. Nearly all of them have AMD CPUs, and I have no icore or other core type ones at all.
Thanks.