Re: [gnugo-devel] SlugGo v.s. Many Faces 2h stones early results

[David G Doshay]

On Aug 26, 2004, at 6:22 PM, Gunnar Farnebäck wrote:

> David wrote:
> > Unfortunately, we only have one pc for running Many Faces, so the
> > games come in slowly.
>
> This is humoristic. You write this deeply searching, very slow program
> which requires a cluster to run, but in the end it turns out to be the
> opponent which is the bottleneck. :-)
>
> (I'm aware that it's probably idle most of the time, but it's still
> the scarce resource.)

Indeed. Many Faces answers almost instantly, one or two seconds
most of the time, but there is only one. It just feels so odd to 
consider
buying a rack full of Windows boxes to play against ... Maybe I'll be
able to find a bunch of PCs that are idle.

Cheers,
David