Author: Mark Young
Date: 21:28:39 07/08/00
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On July 09, 2000 at 00:19:20, blass uri wrote: >I read that the price of the hardware of Deep Junior is 150,000$ > >Ny question is if it is possible by similiar price to get better speed. > >Is it possible to combine many cheaper computers to work in parallel (even by >less efficient way) and get better speed?. > >I know that it is possible to combine 2 computers to work in parallel by >winboard or by autoplayer. > >I guess that it is possible to use many computers to analyze all the positions >one ply after the root position and part of the positions 2 plies after the root >position and to use the scores of all the computers to decide about the right >move(I guess that the regular method of alpha beta will not help here because >the connection time between the computers is too high). > >Uri It may not be possible to get better speed for the money, but I bet its possible to build a machine almost as fast for a lot less money. You always pay top dollar for the cutting edge in computer speed.
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