Some news about Houdini 2.0

[Houdini]

You can find some information about the future Houdini 2.0 release at this location: http://www.cruxis.com/chess/houdini_news.htm .
New features include Strength Limit, Persistent Hash (Save/Load Hash from disk file), Position Learning, Chess960 support and Mate Search Limit.

Thank you for reading,
Robert

[SchachProfi]

Robert,

thanks for all your work and your kind information regarding V2.0 which the whole chess-world is looking forward too - and you hopefully enjoy that... but not to long.

It would be also nice when a) "setoption name ClearHash (true)" would be added too (it doesn't work in Arena), b) the engine would give some kind of feedback when an UCI-option is received and understood, like "setoption name Threads 1" -> 'Processing 1 Thread' etc and c) would support extensive logging about its calculation, see the Rybka Visualizer as an example... ... i, and guess a lot other, would kindly write the Visualizer itself.

Best wishes,

Alex

[FlavusSnow]

Any thought on a Linux compile?

[Laskos]

Is the 1100 mm f/3.75 Cruxis telescope ready? I understood that it is servo-motorized, therefore you could take long exposure pictures with this light-bucket monster. Maybe Houdini 2.0 will come with a personal picture of Sombrero NGC 4594

Kai

[Mark]

Telescope pages are amazing!

[Dirt]

Glad to see the FRC support coming.

Of course you can't say how much stronger it will be. No one would expect...ok, its the internet. Someone would expect that, but no sensible person would.

[M ANSARI]

I agree the telescope stuff is extremely interesting. How much approximately would it cost to get the 1100mm going? Also is it possible to use adaptive optics with this setup? I think a great business model in today's world would be to have a setup where you could buy such a unit and have it setup in some of the best areas with limited light pollution or heat pollution. With a simple internet connection it could be remotely controlled from anywhere in the world. You would have one operator to make simple maintenance and trouble shooting for the equipment on site, but the actual operator would be anywhere in the world. One or two operators could probably maintain 10 or 20 scopes. Two or 3 or these setups in strategic locations around the world and you could have 24/7 ability to use a telescope somewhere around the earth. I am sure a LOT of universities and even private individuals would be interested in that.

[Laskos]

I am sure a LOT of universities and even private individuals would be interested in that.

Sure, I for one would subscribe to these deep-sky monsters much more eagerly than to Houdini or Rybka clusters

The deep-sky stuff (clusters included ) is really fascinating!

Kai

[Mark]

I agree the telescope stuff is extremely interesting. How much approximately would it cost to get the 1100mm going? Also is it possible to use adaptive optics with this setup? I think a great business model in today's world would be to have a setup where you could buy such a unit and have it setup in some of the best areas with limited light pollution or heat pollution. With a simple internet connection it could be remotely controlled from anywhere in the world. You would have one operator to make simple maintenance and trouble shooting for the equipment on site, but the actual operator would be anywhere in the world. One or two operators could probably maintain 10 or 20 scopes. Two or 3 or these setups in strategic locations around the world and you could have 24/7 ability to use a telescope somewhere around the earth. I am sure a LOT of universities and even private individuals would be interested in that.

I think it would be a better value than renting the Rybka cluster!

[Evert]

I agree the telescope stuff is extremely interesting. How much approximately would it cost to get the 1100mm going? Also is it possible to use adaptive optics with this setup? I think a great business model in today's world would be to have a setup where you could buy such a unit and have it setup in some of the best areas with limited light pollution or heat pollution. With a simple internet connection it could be remotely controlled from anywhere in the world. You would have one operator to make simple maintenance and trouble shooting for the equipment on site, but the actual operator would be anywhere in the world. One or two operators could probably maintain 10 or 20 scopes. Two or 3 or these setups in strategic locations around the world and you could have 24/7 ability to use a telescope somewhere around the earth. I am sure a LOT of universities and even private individuals would be interested in that.

That's essentially how large observatories work: there's a technical staff and on-site telescope operators who make sure everything is working and to asses what observations can be done in what order and then run the telescopes. The data is then sent back to whoever acquired the telescope time.
Or so I gather, I'm not an observer so I don't deal with any of this stuff directly.