Sztaki - There is Hope afterall
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There is life at this project, not much but at least the admins are working to reduce our frustration. Listed below is a recent conversations with a link:
http://dist2.ist.tugraz.at/sudoku/fo...ead.php?id=156
Dated June 18th, 2009
Only two work units are still open, and they run since three months on the
fastest computer of our institute, which is an i7 940, 3 GHz. From the debug
output we know that they are really running, and here is an estimation on
their progress:
A1314153443_12.CHK: 76.4072 % done.
A1314153461_12.CHK: 85.5941 % done.
In about one month we will know if there is a solution for 12 givens.
As to the future of the project: Even with Boinc an exhaustive search for
13,14,15 and 16 givens is way too time-consuming. Therefore Oswin wants to modify the software such that it searches for a solution in a subset of the possible configurations of 16 givens.
Best
Bernhard