[Computer-go] Announce: GoBet II

[Darren Cook]

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

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