Author: Mark Young
Date: 19:25:55 07/09/00
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On July 09, 2000 at 10:12:04, Robert Hyatt wrote: >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). Bob what do they have in the 8-way box that Junior 6 is using that cost so much, and makes it 250lb, that is very heavy for just 8 cpus. > > > > > >> >>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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