Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 10:18:23 01/29/01
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On January 29, 2001 at 12:39:25, chip piller wrote: >I am reading a lot of posts with questions about SMP performance and specific >CPU performance for chess programs. >I am in the planning stage of a distributed chess program whose goal is to >obtain improved performance by combining the processing power of several >(2+)networked computers. I understand that there will be some interesting >design issues for such a program, for example the hash and tree search handling. >Does anyone here have any experience with or knowledge of a distributed chess >program? Any suggestions/comments would be greatly appreciated. >Chip Look up "Sun Phoenix" and papers on distributed search written by Jonathan Schaeffer at the university of Alberta. He worked on this for several years in fact, and produced reasonable results. There are other parallel message-passing programs, but they are historically based on non-network type connections (ie the hypercube machines, etc.)
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