Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 07:55:05 12/02/97
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On December 02, 1997 at 06:49:22, Simon Read wrote: >I was sort of hoping that Hans Berliner was going to paralyse >(hehehe, of course I meant parallelise) B* Hitech. > > >We haven't heard anything for a looooooooooooooooooooong time. >It's also been a long time since I last asked. > >Does anybody know anything? > > >Simon HiTech is already parallelized, although in a way different from the rest of the "parallel searchers." The move generator has 64 chips, one for each square, and generates moves in parallel. The evaluator has a set of "feature recognizer" boards that do evaluation in parallel. To do a true parallel search would be expensive because the special-purpose hardware would have to be duplicated, which would be neither easy nor cheap...
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