LiquidNitrogen Posted February 5, 2010 Share Posted February 5, 2010 Hello to all, I wanted to pose this question to all, especially the moderators. I have a small program I wrote that can be used as a benchmarking app, but it takes a few hours to run (WR is 3 hours 12 mins, typical system run on an un-overclocked box is about 5 hours). Is it OK to post a link and ask if anyone wants to run it? I don't want to ruffle any feathers. Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Massman Posted February 5, 2010 Share Posted February 5, 2010 Go ahead and share in this subforum! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LiquidNitrogen Posted February 5, 2010 Author Share Posted February 5, 2010 Thanks! I wrote a program that solves endgame positions in the game of checkers. It starts out with 1 piece against 1 piece (like king vs. king or king vs. checker) and it will "build" onto this, eventually solving every one of nearly 1 billion positions up to and including 3 checkers vs. 3 checkers. It is a 64-bit application, so it will run most expediently on 64-bit hardware. It turns out, due to the nature of the code, it makes for an excellent benchmarking utility. You can read more about it here: http://www.liquidnitrogenoverclocking.com/benchmark_results.shtml and here http://www.liquidnitrogenoverclocking.com/benchmark_about.shtml I am interested in building a "clone" of the system that solves the endgames the fastest to extend my work on solving checkers databases. Right now, the 10-piece database set contains 8.5 trillion positions, and it takes about 4.2 computer years to solve. So, overclocked systems can cut down on this time significantly, which really has me interested! I am not looking to "steal anyone's secrets" and I am not looking to become a "challenger" to anyone's scores on here. I would just like to find really tough endgames to solve, like this one, which takes a (surprising) 253 moves before red can win: Thanks again! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Massman Posted February 6, 2010 Share Posted February 6, 2010 Deleted all the boring chit chat ... let's all move on Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LiquidNitrogen Posted February 6, 2010 Author Share Posted February 6, 2010 Well I had someone send in a time of 16 hours yesterday, lol. Now that is one slooooooow system! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rickss69 Posted February 7, 2010 Share Posted February 7, 2010 ^ I promise it wasnt me... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LiquidNitrogen Posted February 7, 2010 Author Share Posted February 7, 2010 Looks good Rick, let's wait and see how long it takes to end up on the LNO site Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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