The single machine version and the 2000 machine version is apparently a difference in 150 ELO, so maybe a 32 core instance in Amazon would be close enough, costing about 1200$ a month. Maybe it's doable, or for a Tokyo U. or BGA or AGA to set up something like this with Google permission.
On 13/03/2016 00:24, Lukas van de Wiel wrote: > This would be many thousands of dollars per day. A single game would be > more than a thousand dollars in total costs. > I do not think a kickstarter project or so would be successful, as the go > community is simply not *that* big... > > On Sun, Mar 13, 2016 at 1:17 PM, Gonçalo Mendes Ferreira <go...@sapo.pt> > wrote: > >> It does seem unlikely for DeepMind not to move on to "bigger" things, >> but maybe the Go community can make some kind of fundraiser to keep an >> instance of AlphaGo playing 24/7? I think there are some websites for >> this kind of thing. Someone would be in charge of scheduling time for it >> to play pros, other programs, and maybe play online on breaks. Just an >> idea, oh Google overlords that watch all communications. >> >> Gonçalo >> >> On 13/03/2016 00:06, Lukas van de Wiel wrote: >>> Oh, I did not say that it would not be beneficial, to AlphaGo, and to the >>> people playing it, and to the Go community as a whole, but still, it will >>> have to come from somewhere. Just the electricity bill alone would be >>> hair-raising. >>> And the big-scale benefits in prestige and marketing are over, with this >>> victory. >>> >>> It would be cool to build on the works of AlphaGo, and I would like to >> see >>> it as much as the next enthusiast, but I doubt the feasibility... >>> >>> On Sun, Mar 13, 2016 at 1:01 PM, Thomas Wolf <tw...@brocku.ca> wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> >>>> On Sat, 12 Mar 2016, Lukas van de Wiel wrote: >>>> >>>> And the hardware available for this tournament was tremendous. It >> remains >>>>> to be seen whether the hardware and the people >>>>> maintaining it would be available for a longer period. The costs of >> this >>>>> are not to be underestimated. Who would pay it? >>>>> >>>> >>>> The AlphaGo team would get feedback from testing by players with very >>>> different ideas/strengths who they would otherwise never get in contact >>>> with. >>>> >>>> For example, Michael Redmond mentioned repeatedly in the last 3 reviews >>>> that >>>> he would love to play AlphaGo to study Go, to find new openings,... >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>> Lukas >>>>> >>>>> On Sun, Mar 13, 2016 at 12:20 PM, Clark B. Wierda <cbwie...@gmail.com> >>>>> wrote: >>>>> On Sat, Mar 12, 2016 at 5:05 PM, Thomas Wolf <tw...@brocku.ca> >>>>> wrote: >>>>> Having AlphaGo playing exclusively on KGS would be such a >>>>> boost to KGS! >>>>> >>>>> For sure. >>>>> >>>>> The other Go servers might have their own opinion on that. >>>>> >>>>> Clark >>>>> >> _______________________________________________ >> Computer-go mailing list >> Computer-go@computer-go.org >> http://computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > Computer-go mailing list > Computer-go@computer-go.org > http://computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go > _______________________________________________ Computer-go mailing list Computer-go@computer-go.org http://computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go
