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Rollout

Posted By: RobertFontaine
Date: Monday, 5 November 2007, at 3:55 p.m.

In Response To: Rollout (Chuck Bower)

J Random Blather...

I'm looking at buying a box for rollouts. The most cost effective sol'n seems to be a q6600 and gnubg for rollout right now. Thought about a dual quad xeon ( mac pro//dell precision) but the price really jumps quick.

How much of a difference does having sconyers database installed make to average rollout speeds?

I've noticed BGBlitz will span 16 processors now. I wonder if there is a way to distribute the work in a fashion similar to "folding@home" so that we can start to have a meaningful database of positions.

I tend to envy the chess guys with Chessbase, Fritz, etc where they have match and position databases that have standard interfaces to a big set of smart engines that have a standard interface to a big set of different ui's.

Today we seem to have 3 engines. Mr. Berger appears to be the only one regularily working on the playing strength. Although rumours of Snowie 5 abound.

At this point I'm sure there are several of you hording your positions and analysis as a competitive advantage. In some ways I'm surprised and happy that Stick isn't.

So what the heck did I just say?

Is there a better box format that I should be looking at than the Q6600? Is Mr. Sconyer's database worth the 100$ from the perspective of speed and correctness?

Can someone please please set up a distributed rollout engine and a database to share the results. Web Services are pretty darn ubiquitous and peer sharing and generation of the results would be awfully nice.

Thanks, Robert

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