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Subject: Re: How good to use a LAN for chess computing?

Author: Slater Wold

Date: 23:03:25 09/14/01

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On September 14, 2001 at 22:56:06, Pham Minh Tri wrote:

>I see that dual computers are expensive, not easy to own and still limited in
>power of computing.
>
>I wonder how good / possible if we use all computers in a LAN for chess
>computing. LANs are very popular and the numbers of computers could be hundreds.
>Even though a LAN is not effective as a dual circuit, but the bigger number of
>processors could help and break the limit.
>
>What do you think?

From what I understand, the hashing would be so slow, that it would actually
kill any possiblity of performance gains.

Clusters are popular, but I know Hyatt has expressed that these are junk for
chess engines.


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