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Chess - 2070 CPUs vs 1 GM
jvarsoke writes "ChessBrain.net broke the world's record for 'largest number of distributed computers used to play a single game' by holding a chess match between Danish GM Peter Heine Nielsen and the equivalent of SETI@home (which similarly, has some people looking for a Mate). 2070 CPU's from 56 countries aided Black by running the chess program Beowulf, including a couple of University clusters. Their supernode ran Linux, and MySQL. The game was relayed by FICS. Results can be viewed here(1) and here(2)."
I'd love to see a Beowolf cluster of those... Oh damn... it is =:-)
Sure Chess it great, but can it find me a date?
May I suggest, that neither the SETI@Home, nor Chessbrain.net, is the best place where one can find a Mate.
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For example, there have only been 1026 nanoseconds since the Big Bang. There are thought to be only 1075 atoms in the entire universe.
The universe must be much smaller than I am prepared to comprehend.
I have been pwned because my
Pfft. Even now computers need to cheat at games.
I'd like to see a Beowulf cluster of Chess Grand Masters take on Big Blue.
Damn multiple-use acronyms.
Start a happiness pandemic
Vodka-cooled Russians have traditionally dominated the field.
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There are thought to be only 1075 atoms in the entire universe.
They must be very big.
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1 CPU to beat the GM.
+2069 CPU's so it could get on Slashdot.
There are very few humans on the planet that can beat even one computer. That's been true for how many years now? Neither beating a GM or 2070 CPU's is impressive anymore.
Someone go built a robot that can shovel snow, now THAT would be useful.
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Yeah, if "countless" is by your definition "less than 24".
Did you know you can fertilize your lawn with used motor oil?
If you are going to pick nits about a type, at least do it properly. 1026 nanoseconds != 1.026 ms. Perhaps you were thinking of microseconds? ;)
If you are going to pick nits about a typo, then spell typo properly :-)
When they came for the communists, I said "He's next door. Take him away. Goddam commies."
You can also identify the computer that beat you and take a bat to it.
The day a computer can pick out a person in a group and take a bat to them, that is the day we must fear.
WWJD.... for a Klondike bar?
Those fancy chess playing computers are going to take over the world some day, yessirree!
I for one welcome our new chess playing overlords!
Grammar Nazis... I hate these guys.
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> and the equivalent of SETI@home (which similarly, has some people looking for a Mate).
I had always wondered why people ran SETI@home; now I know: they have given up on mating fellow humans (Is their self esteem that low? Has obesity gotten that bad in America?) and are looking to find love with aliens, once we decrypt the personal ads they have been sending us via interstellar radio.
(I think ambiguous appositives like these are a good reason to switch to Lojban)
...Waffle Iron still hasn't taken the time to learn chess strategy; gets soundly beaten once again by a cluster of one Z80 running the chess cartridge on a 1992 vintage Gameboy.