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Subject: Re: Distributed Computing in chess?

Author: Angrim

Date: 11:54:42 02/10/01

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On February 09, 2001 at 15:40:28, chip piller wrote:

>I posted a similar question recently, noting that there is a lot of interest in
>fast cpu's and SMP machines to get improved performance for a chess program.
>
>I am working on (planning stage now) a distributed chess project.  There is a
>project page at http://sourceforge.net/projects/dchess but we have no code yet.
>
Project has been sitting around since May 2000 with no activity, thats not
very encouraging.  Unless the actual planning is being done someplace else
than the sourceforge pages?

>Our approach will be a distributed chess analysis program with low bandwidth
>requirements.
>Chip

analysis -> very long time controls.. should be feasable.
Hardest part (I think) will be finding people who have both the knowlege
you need, and the motivation to work on this.  Both are fairly rare,
I for instance would have no motivation since I don't own a large cluster.

Good Luck :)
Angrim



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