What KGS room will the games be played in? What is Tromp's KGS handle? On Jan 11, 2012 11:24 PM, "Darren Cook" <[email protected]> wrote:
> The details on the GoBet II match have now been finalized. It will start > this Friday evening (in U.S.; Saturday morning in Japan). > > > When: During January 2012 (exactly when will be announced soon) > > New York time (for John): > Fri, Jan 13, 8pm > Sat, Jan 14, 8pm > Sun, Jan 15, 8pm > Mon, Jan 16, 8pm #If 2-1 > Wed, Jan 18, 8pm #If 2-2 > > Japan time (for Zen, also for Darren): > Sat, Jan 14, 10am > Sun, Jan 15, 10am > Mon, Jan 16, 10am > Tue, Jan 17, 10am #If 2-1 > Thu, Jan 19, 10am #If 2-2 > > (UTC times for each game is 1am (on same date as the Japan times), so > not good for those in Europe, sorry) > > > Hardware: (to be announced) > > KGS Account Name for Zen: Zen19N > > Operator: Hideki Kato > > Hardware: a dual 6-core Xeon X5680 (over-clocked to 4.2Ghz) > > With the over-clocking, this hardware is slightly more than twice as > fast as the Amazon EC2 instance used for the London go bet. (Six to > seven times faster than the notebook used for the first two games in > that match.) > (A doubling in 12 months is a bit ahead of Moore's Law; but we were > underpowered last year, relative to what I had hoped to use.) > > Hardware cost estimate: 350,000 yen (about US$4375 currently) > > Fascinating Trivia: John claims not to be worried about starting the > match on Friday The Thirteenth, as he was born on one! > > Darren > > -- > Darren Cook, Software Researcher/Developer > > http://dcook.org/work/ (About me and my work) > http://dcook.org/blogs.html (My blogs and articles) > _______________________________________________ > Computer-go mailing list > [email protected] > http://dvandva.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/computer-go >
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