Current hardware and OS for Edition 16?

Hi Leo,

Could you tell me what hardware you are using in the 4th division, Edition 16. I noticed that some 64-bit versions are sceduled:

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Brutus 5.4-x64
Deuterium 08.01.26.247-x64
...

Is the tournament running on a 64-bit OS? I couldn't find a confirmation of that on the WBEC-website. If so: Good for Brutus and Deuterium!

Best wishes,
Stephan

Leo is indeed using 64bit os, If I recall correctly he was one of the first people who started using 64 bit engines on Xp pro 64 bit beta. I doubt that Brutus would have a hardtime in the current division it's in. Have you fixed the time management of Brutus under incremental time controls? When do we get a new version?

Hi Stephan,

All divisions play at the Opteron's this edition (Opteron 244 with WinXP-x64)

Best wishes,
Leo

Tony Thomas wrote:Have you fixed the time management of Brutus under incremental time controls? When do we get a new version?

Hi Tony,

Indeed I have a new version with fixed time control. It also supports SMP and has improved pondering for manually operated tournaments.
The thing is, if I don't use SMP, it is slightly weaker than the original version and that is a bit irritating!!! But I promise, a newer version will be released within a short while. (Probably before the start of the tournament).

Regards Stephan

Stephan Vermeire (Brutus) wrote:

Tony Thomas wrote:Have you fixed the time management of Brutus under incremental time controls? When do we get a new version?

Hi Tony,

Indeed I have a new version with fixed time control. It also supports SMP and has improved pondering for manually operated tournaments.
The thing is, if I don't use SMP, it is slightly weaker than the original version and that is a bit irritating!!! But I promise, a newer version will be released within a short while. (Probably before the start of the tournament).

Regards Stephan

Great news Stephan