Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 07:12:04 07/09/00
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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$ That is not the right price, I hope. Dell and others sell 8-way boxes for way under 100,000 dollars (US). > >Ny question is if it is possible by similiar price to get better speed. Yes. A 'cluster' would be cheaper, but would require _lots_ of programming changes to work on that platform. A dual alpha would be cheaper and faster. > >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
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