On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 9:22 AM, David Doshay <ddos...@mac.com> wrote: > 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.
it would be worthwhile for this community to reward authors of efficient algorithms. authors of the best algorithms, once clearly identified, could line up for grants to port to larger architectures, to see whether their work scales. newcomers would have a strong incentive to try their ideas, even if they're not aligned with large computing resources. while we don't currently have such funding, clear community demand would be an important step in realizing it. for any architecture, we can measure which algorithms are getting the best results, per rough unit of computation resources. one very honest measurement is electricity. electricity can be estimated where it is not closely measured. here is a thread from July which tries to outline this in more detail: Elo-joules / honest clusters / Re: tournaments http://computer-go.org/pipermail/computer-go/2008-July/015357.html arrange a "Green Computer Go" tournament, in which the wattage used by each machine is well monitored. play a marathon to calculate rankings, then normalize based on each contestant's sum of game-relative joules. the best "Elo / joules" ratio determines the winner. -- - Ryan _______________________________________________ computer-go mailing list computer-go@computer-go.org http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/
