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. Slate
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