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From the linked Wikipedia article: > All experiments were conducted on PCs equipped with an Intel Core i5-2500K CPU running at 3.30GHz and 16GB of RAM. Why ar
by adiM 13y ago
From the linked Wikipedia article:
> All experiments were conducted on PCs equipped with an Intel Core i5-2500K CPU running at 3.30GHz and 16GB of RAM.
Why are these experiments not being conducted on a more powerful computer or a cluster?
- IsTom 13y agoBecause it only took 6 hours anyway.
- alephnil 13y agoAs already mentioned, it only took six hours. To make it run on a cluster or supercomnputer, you must parallelize the algorithm, which will take considerably longer time, even if it is easy. Then they likely have to apply for access, which also take time. Then it is easier to just run it on an available computer.
- csense 13y agoFor the same reason you don't see word processors using a more powerful computer or cluster to render text for display as pixels. - It would be awfully inconvenient to program - It would require buying, building or obtaining access to such a machine - It'd require investing some amount of time and/or money -- obviously completely unnecessarily -- because whatever desktop or laptop happened to be within reach is perfectly adequate to the task