[computer-go] 9x9 vs 19x19 (was: computer-go Digest)

[terry mcintyre]

I have a dual-core AMD64 which is unused and connected to the internet for a most of the day, and would be delighted to volunteer it for running an instance of a 19x19 go program for cgos. 
 
Terry McIntyre
UNIX for hire
software development / systems administration / security 
terrymcintyre at yahoo.com

----- Original Message ----
From: Heikki Levanto <heikki at lsd.dk>
To: drd at mit.edu; computer-go <computer-go at computer-go.org>
Sent: Monday, May 21, 2007 12:13:43 PM
Subject: Re: [computer-go] 9x9 vs 19x19 (was: computer-go Digest)

On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 02:58:25PM -0400, Don Dailey wrote:
> 
> I still have this horrible fear that 9x9 would suffer if several
> programs moved over to 19x19.   Or perhaps BOTH would suffer from a lack
> of a variety of competition.  

I see your point.

> What might be useful is if there was an organized system of volunteers
> who might be willing to run an instance of your program on request for a
> few days?   

Let me be the first one to volunteer for that. I have a dual-core AMD-64
as my workstation, and as long as I have to be at the office every day,
it has lots of unused cpu power... The next few days I may be running
my Halgo on it, but I'm sure it can handle another program without me
noticing any ill effects.

> CGOS has not been particularly stable until just recently.   I fixed a
> bug about 10 days ago and it has been running without a problem since
> then, so I think it's reasonably stable now.    I was not willing to
> think about another server until I can be sure that it's possible to run
> for weeks in a row without bugs.   

I know the feeling - I am as much a sysadmin as a programmer by
profession, and have great understanding about not putting code into
production settings before it is ready for it.

> But maybe the time is just about right.

Maybe - your decision!

   -Heikki



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Heikki Levanto   "In Murphy We Turst"     heikki (at) lsd (dot) dk

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