445.gobmk
SPEC CPU2006 Benchmark Description

Benchmark Name

445.gobmk

Benchmark Author

GNU Go authors (in chronological order of contribution) are Man Lung Li, Wayne Iba, Daniel Bump, David Denholm, Gunnar Farnebäck, Nils Lohner, Jerome Dumonteil, Tommy Thorn, Nicklas Ekstrand, Inge Wallin, Thomas Traber, Douglas Ridgway, Teun Burgers, Tanguy Urvoy, Thien-Thi Nguyen, Heikki Levanto, Mark Vytlacil, Adriaan van Kessel, Wolfgang Manner, Jens Yllman, Don Dailey, Mans Ullerstam, Arend Bayer, Trevor Morris, Evan Berggren Daniel, Fernando Portela, Paul Pogonyshev, S.P. Lee, Stephane Nicolet and Martin Holters.
(List taken from development page at
http://www.gnu.org/software/gnugo/devel.html)

Benchmark Program General Category

Artificial intelligence - game playing.

Benchmark Description

The program plays Go and executes a set of commands to analyze Go positions.

Input Description

Most input is in "SmartGo Format" (.sgf), a widely used de facto standard representation of Go games. A typical test involves reading in a game to a certain point, then executing a command to analyze the position.

Output Description

Output is typically an ascii description of a sequence of Go moves.

Programming Language

C

Known portability issues

There are no known portability problems remaining as of this writing (May 2005). The last portability problem fixed dealt was the nonstandard assumption of signed characters.

References

Last updated: 7 March 2006