Author: Roger D Davis
Date: 15:06:59 09/20/00
Hello. Lots of folks are now working on Peer-to-Peer networks to exploit the trillions of unused CPU cycles going to waste on desktops everywhere. Intel is using such a network to assist in CPU design. SETI@home is using something like this to assist in its analyses. What about a Peer-to-Peer chess program? All that woudl be needed would be a means of distributing the moves to the various CPUs on the network. Won't it soon be possible to use this technique to search deeper than Deep Blue, maybe even without null move? Remember, it could be possible to involve THOUSANDS and THOUSANDS of desktop machines. Such a program could run full time on ICC, with machines joining and unjoining a dynamic network that would increase and decrease in strength throughout the day, but probably always be stronger than than all but the best. The person who wrote such a program might even challenge Kasparov to a match, and you can imagine that maybe a hundred thousand people would volunteer their computers to participate in such a match. This is just speculation, but what is really possible given Peer-to-Peer? Roger
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