Programmers work on all kinds of hardware. Making them port their
code to some arbitrary "standard" platform is not a great idea. Just
as one voice, I will not bother to port my code to a different box. So,
if the competitions are all on the same hardware you are running a
*Go -playing-programs-developed-on-that-platform* competition.
And that sounds silly to me.
I have been working on Go on moderate sized clusters (25 - 75 CPUs)
for about 5 years. Most of my work has shown that it is not trivial to
write a program that scales reasonably over those processors. It is far
from trivial to develop and debug programs that run on clusters. More
hardware is no guarantee of a stronger program and is not a simple
way to get one.
Cheers,
David
On 13, Jan 2009, at 6:26 AM, Petr Baudis wrote:
Is it a _Go program_
competition? Or _Go-playing computer_ competition? I think in the
former
case it would make most sense to just run all the programs on the same
hardware provided by the organizers.
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