On a related note, at the same tournament, the cluster version of "Many Face of Go" has won the Gold medal in both 9X9 and 19X19 categories with no defeats. Go is notoriously harder than Chess for computers to play as you might now. The results are here:
http://www.grappa.univ-lille3.fr/icga/tournament.php?id=181 incidentally, the code was running on a Windows HPC Server 2008, 32 core intel cluster (we helped the author port/tune his MPI code a little). For some info re challenges in computer Go see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_go Shahrokh From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Peter St. John Sent: Saturday, October 04, 2008 1:33 PM To: beowulf@beowulf.org Subject: [Beowulf] OT: the ongoing computer chess championship in China The World Computer Chess Championship is onging in China (part of the World Mind Sports thing). The leaders, about half-way through , are a 40 core cluster from the US and a "8 x 4GHz" machine from the UK, with 4.5 out of 5. There are 10 participants, it's a nine-round round robin. Cluster Toga, also a cluster, is notable for drawing both of the leaders. >From http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=4935 Rybka USA Cluster, 40 cores 3.5 4 5.0 4.50 Hiarcs GBR Intel Skulltrail, 8 x 4Ghz 3.5 4 3.0 2.50 Sjeng BEL Intel Core 2, 4 x 2.8Ghz 2.5 4 4.0 2.00 Junior ISR Intel Dunnington, 12 x 2.67Ghz 2.5 3 3.0 2.50 The Baron NLD AMD Opteron 270, 4 x 2Ghz 2.0 4 7.0 1.75 Jonny GER Cluster, 16 cores 1.0 4 12.0 2.50 Cluster Toga GER 24 cores 1.0 3 9.5 3.50 Shredder GER Intel Core 2, 8 x 3.16Ghz 1.0 3 8.0 2.25 Falcon ISR Intel Core 2, 2 x 2.1Ghz 1.0 3 6.0 0.00 Mobile Chess CHN Nokia 6120c 0.0 4 9.0 0.00 Peter _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
