Covermaster could break more records if..

[Grandmaster]

Hi,

Since building large wheels take a lot of time and knowing that world record wheels are very competitive today, I think that if I have the next computer for sure Covermaster will find new world record wheels, just my opinion.

About Hydra,

"Currently Hydra machine is a 16 way cluster computer in the highly sophisticated server room of Pal Computer Systems in Abu Dhabi. Each processor is a Intel Xeon 3.06 Ghz, two processors in each node and a total of 16 GB of memory make the cluster one of the fastest computer that can play chess."

"In order to make it state of the art, Pal Computer Systems involved the area specialists into the building of this cluster which includes the Megware Computers, University of Paderborn Center of Parallel Computing and the FPGA providers Alpha Data from UK."

 

[thornc]

hehe... it's a special purpose computer built around fpga chips controlled by those Xeon processors.... So for chess it's a monster machine, but for anything else it's just a 16 cpu cluster (not that much)!
Details here!!

The major problem with this kind of systems is the OS, you very well know desktop windows XP is not going to take advantage of all that power... and good option would be a Beowulf cluster running over linux; but that is just the least of the problem every software you would have to use would have to be based on parallel or paralleling libraries.... GRID middleware is in these days.

A good example of a running cluster is google's system which is so classified some people try to guess what it has...
here an example!

 

[Grandmaster]

hehe... it's a special purpose computer built around fpga chips controlled by those Xeon processors.... So for chess it's a monster machine, but for anything else it's just a 16 cpu cluster (not that much)!

Then HYDRA is against the top,

"THE WORLD'S TOP SUPERCOMPUTERS"

1. NEC's Earth Simulator, 41 teraflops, Japan
What it does: Climate modeling, atmospheric and global warming research.


2. Hewlett-Packard's ASCI Q, 20.5 teraflops, Los Alamos National Laboratory
What it does: Simulated nuclear weapons testing (classified).


3. IBM's ASCI White, 12.3 teraflops, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
What it does: Simulated nuclear weapons testing (classified).


4. Fujitsu's Primepower, 12 teraflops, National Aerospace Laboratory of Japan.
What it does: Aeronautical and engineering analyses.


5. Hewlett-Packard's Itanium2, 11.8 teraflops, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.
What it does: Chemistry, biology and environmental studies.


UPDATE:
The #1 is the NEC SX series model "SX-8," the world's most powerful vector supercomputer with a peak processing performance of 65TFLOPS (TFLOPS: one trillion floating point operations per second).

PRICE:
The monthly rental price of the SX-8 starts from approximately US $11,000, and shipment will commence in December 2004.

 

[bloubul]

Covermaster could break more records if

All CoverMaster Guru's.

Help please. Is there a full version of CoverMaster? If so help with the link. My version 0.55....... " Evaluation".

When does the " Advance" button in Opitmazation becomes effective?.

What is the limitations of CoverMaster?


BlouBul

 

[Brad]

I'm not a Guru but this I know ...

All CoverMaster Guru's.

Help please. Is there a full version of CoverMaster? If so help with the link. My version 0.55....... " Evaluation".

When does the " Advance" button in Opitmazation becomes effective?.

What is the limitations of CoverMaster?


BlouBul

Version? 0.55.2.0 is the latest available even though it is the pre-release evaluation.

Advance button?

Limits? Pool: 6-99, Pick: 3-7, Imagination: unlimited

 

[lottoarchitect]

Well, honestly covermaster is very unlikely to break more records. It produces world record results for small wheels but beyond that.... This is due to the optimisation applied which is not a strong one. Even if other techniques used (build, remove low depencence ticket, optimize etc) this do not greatly improve the wheels.
A better program is ININUGA, although limited to the numbers (up to 32) and it is VERY slow and cannot generate open-cover wheels. A third one is WG1.4 which offers both worlds but I do not intent to release it as a stand-alone program.

 

[bloubul]

lottoarchitect

If your WG1.4 are as good as you claim, send it to some of us in various countries as a stand a lone and let we put it to the test. We will judge it for you. (Good / Medium / oooooooooor "whatever")


BlouBul

 

[lottoarchitect]

lottoarchitect

If your WG1.4 are as good as you claim, send it to some of us in various countries as a stand a lone and let we put it to the test. We will judge it for you. (Good / Medium / oooooooooor "whatever")


BlouBul

Smart, well have a look at my wheels page and try to beat them (those with an * generated with WG). My favourite category is 5if6 in pick 6 games. Another thing that cannot be seen there, is the improvement of coverage and multiple hits. This is not handled in Covermaster, neither ININUGA.

 

[Grandmaster]

Hi,

Now Hydra has 32 processors of latest technology, it's 5 times faster than previous version and it expects an elo of 3000 in chess..

Now I'm sure that if I use Hydra 32 power processors combine with Covermaster, Wheel Generator 1.4 and Lottodesigner 2.81+ for sure new World record wheels appear..

 

[thornc]

Still would like to know which operating system they use in that baby....

edit:
After a quick check on the alpha-data site I might say that they are using either linux or vx-works!