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what would you like 2c in XG3? — Rollout Bank in the cloud

Posted By: Michael Petch
Date: Wednesday, 11 January 2012, at 3:54 p.m.

In Response To: what would you like 2c in XG3? — Rollout Bank in the cloud (Taper_Mike)

Mike wrote: "Michael, your understand exactly what I mean when I say, “Rollout Bank.” "

Yes, I did know what you meant. I was eliminating the backend infrastructure from the equation to simply boil down the problem to that of a database of rollouts accessible from a central source. We are looking at Software as a Service.

Mike Wrote: "Bots should be able to interogate it, and — if a user is authorized — have the abililty to upload new rollouts. The real key for success is to have the tool built into the bot. Fritz has a simple command called, “Let’s Check” built right into the chess program itself. We need something like that in our backgammon bots."

We completely agree on this. ALL bots/software/users (thus my original bot agnostic comment) should be able benefit from an Open API that can be freely used within Open Source, or Commercial products. The bots would then have the ability (if the author chooses) to program against the API to access the central repositories. This thread was in the context of XG, but I wished to formalize the view that the repository should allow equal access to all products and users.

Mike wrote: "Alex’s system of off-loading rollouts from the client is also a great idea. I worry, however, that it may be impractical at present. My rollout of 62S-32-s for Nack Ballard took 11 days and 18 hours"

Rollouts in the cloud is a nice to have, and a proof of concept has been given. However where rollouts are done is not really relevant IMHO. They could be done by a user on home equipment, a private companies servers or in a cloud environment. As long as results can be published to a central location, I don;t think it matters.

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  Simon Knight -- Friday, 6 January 2012, at 11:13 a.m.
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    rew -- Friday, 6 January 2012, at 12:16 p.m.
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      Christian Munk-Christensen -- Friday, 6 January 2012, at 12:54 p.m.
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        Christian Munk-Christensen -- Friday, 6 January 2012, at 12:54 p.m.
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          Michael Nielsen -- Friday, 6 January 2012, at 3:01 p.m.
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            Simon Knight -- Friday, 6 January 2012, at 3:32 p.m.
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              Michael Nielsen -- Friday, 6 January 2012, at 3:55 p.m.
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                Simon Knight -- Friday, 6 January 2012, at 4:08 p.m.
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              Michael Nielsen -- Friday, 6 January 2012, at 4:02 p.m.
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                Simon Knight -- Friday, 6 January 2012, at 4:21 p.m.
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    alex99 -- Friday, 6 January 2012, at 2:37 p.m.
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    jdg -- Friday, 6 January 2012, at 3:18 p.m.
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      Taper_Mike -- Friday, 6 January 2012, at 6:48 p.m.
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        jdg -- Friday, 6 January 2012, at 8:25 p.m.
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          eXtreme Gammon -- Friday, 6 January 2012, at 9:02 p.m.
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    Timothy Chow -- Friday, 6 January 2012, at 5:54 p.m.
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    Liam -- Friday, 6 January 2012, at 10:54 p.m.
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    Taper_Mike -- Saturday, 7 January 2012, at 1:29 a.m.
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      alex99 -- Saturday, 7 January 2012, at 11:56 p.m.
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        Taper_Mike -- Tuesday, 10 January 2012, at 4:52 a.m.
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          Michael Petch -- Tuesday, 10 January 2012, at 7:09 a.m.
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            Simon Knight -- Tuesday, 10 January 2012, at 12:43 p.m.
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              alex99 -- Tuesday, 10 January 2012, at 1:46 p.m.
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      Michael Petch -- Tuesday, 10 January 2012, at 6:40 p.m.
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      Michael Petch -- Tuesday, 10 January 2012, at 7:00 p.m.
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        Michael Petch -- Tuesday, 10 January 2012, at 7:07 p.m.
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          Taper_Mike -- Wednesday, 11 January 2012, at 8:02 a.m.
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            Michael Petch -- Wednesday, 11 January 2012, at 3:54 p.m.
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              Taper_Mike -- Thursday, 12 January 2012, at 5:31 a.m.
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        alex99 -- Wednesday, 11 January 2012, at 1:53 a.m.
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          Michael Petch -- Wednesday, 11 January 2012, at 3:37 a.m.
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            alex99 -- Wednesday, 11 January 2012, at 1:35 p.m.
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              Taper_Mike -- Thursday, 12 January 2012, at 5:33 a.m.
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    Fabrice Liardet -- Saturday, 7 January 2012, at 10:18 a.m.
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