Re: [gnugo-devel] SlugGo v.s. Many Faces

[Arend Bayer]

> > 2 , if your SlugGo program can run under Windows ,it should work against
> > Go++ using autogo .
> 
> No, SlugGo runs on a cluster of OS X machines, although it will run fine on
> any cluster that can use LAM-MPI ... a whole raft of unix and linux type
> boxes.
> Our infrastructure is a layer on top of LAM-MPI. LAM-MPI is not Windows
> compatible.
> 
> While it can run on a single cpu machine it would be painfully slow for any
> kind of game play. We have run single cpu for debugging, but only for very
> small boards and short lookahead.

You don't need to have Sluggo running on the windows machine:
1. Have Sluggo listen on a TCP/IP port.
2. Run "netgtp" (provided in the tools coming with GoGui [1]) as the
GTP engine on the windows machine. 

Arend

[1] http://www.markus-enzenberger.de/compgo/gogui.html