TCEC oddity

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Dann Corbit
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Re: TCEC oddity

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ernest wrote:
Dann Corbit wrote:When I go to connect to TCEC, I am getting a popup that says:

Email Verification
Please verify your email first
[Verification code]
send verification code

[verify]


Am I the only one seeing this? I never saw it before.
I got the same thing, but later I got an email from chatwing with the needed verification code.
Finally, I entrered that code, and the problem disappeared...
(...more or less, because I then still received about a dozen emails with verification codes!). Strange Chatwing initiative!!!

BTW, Dann, you never answered me about the possibility of generating a non-NUMA compile of Cfish.
Sorry, I did not see your message.

Why do you want a non-NUMA version? I expect the NUMA version to play about as well on an integrated SMP core as a non-NUMA version.
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Re: TCEC oddity

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The NUMA code does no harm on a non-NUMA machine, except that on Linux a NUMA binary won't work unless libnuma is installed.
ernest
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Re: TCEC oddity

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Dann Corbit wrote: Why do you want a non-NUMA version?
Because, as I reported to you,
On my main computer which I use for chess, old dualcore E6600 with Win XP Pro x64, I immediately got the error message:
The procedure entry point VirtualAllocExNuma could not be located in the dynamic link library Kernel32.dll

Of course, it is a wild try (or wild idea), but one never knows!
ernest
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Re: TCEC oddity

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syzygy wrote:The NUMA code does no harm on a non-NUMA machine, except that on Linux a NUMA binary won't work unless libnuma is installed.
Ron, please look at my answer to Dann...
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Re: TCEC oddity

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Ok, I will fix this.
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Re: TCEC oddity

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syzygy wrote:Ok, I will fix this.
There is nothing to fix really.
You have a parameter in your make file for NUMA (y/n)
I changed it to no, did a build, and mailed him a new binary.
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Re: TCEC oddity

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On the TCEC live page, Chatwing chat is gone, having been replaced by Twitch chat. Chat accounts now have to undergo email verification. The live page is now a little glitchy, and it will probably take a bit of time for the TCEC guys to sort out the bugs.

Hopefully this effort to reduce chat spam works.
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Re: TCEC oddity

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I hope they start broadcasting via Twitch as well. :D
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Re: TCEC oddity

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AdminX wrote:I hope they start broadcasting via Twitch as well. :D
https://www.twitch.tv/tcecpoc is the streaming page. They said they will start doing streams.
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Re: TCEC oddity

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ernest wrote:On my main computer which I use for chess, old dualcore E6600 with Win XP Pro x64, I immediately got the error message:
The procedure entry point VirtualAllocExNuma could not be located in the dynamic link library Kernel32.dll
NUMA compiles should now work for you (but won't support NUMA because XP does not support it).