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Subject: Re: Using a lot of computers against kramnik(is it possible?)

Author: Vincent Diepeveen

Date: 15:42:27 04/18/01

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On April 18, 2001 at 05:57:37, Uri Blass wrote:

>On April 18, 2001 at 05:27:44, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:
>
>>On April 17, 2001 at 15:53:36, Dann Corbit wrote:
>>
>>>On April 17, 2001 at 15:40:58, Uri Blass wrote:
>>>
>>>>Suppose program X is playing against kramnik.
>>>>
>>>>I think that it may be a good idea to generate a program that generates a tree
>>>>and sends all the positions in the tree to people who want to help the computer
>>>>in the match(I will call it the main program).
>>>>
>>>>The people give program X to analyze the position and return score and depth to
>>>>the main program.
>>>>
>>>>The main program is using all the information about scores and depthes to decide
>>>>about the best move.
>>>>
>>>>Yace or Gandalf can be used for this task because they are not preprocessors.
>>>>Most programs need to be changed in order to be used in this way and there
>>>>should be an option to analyze position A when the root position is known as
>>>>position B.
>>>>
>>>>I think that in this way 1000 pIII800's can be clearly better than an SMP
>>>>machine.
>>>>Am I right?
>>>
>>>Communication between tasks will be the bottleneck, since we are obviously not
>>>talking about SMP here.
>>>
>>>I have a very similar idea discussed earlier under my "beancounter" threads.  It
>>>will only work at slow time controls, and it would work very well under postal
>>>time controls.  The most important piece (that you have not described) is the
>>>coordination process, which tells the workers where the effort is needed.
>>
>>but in Uri's case we talk about something different as different programs
>>give different scores, so we talk about the worst case behaviour of all programs
>>which one needs to take into account!
>
>No
>I was talking about the same program only on different computers.
>I also suggested that the program is going to be one of the programs yace or
>gandalf because I know that they are not doing preprocessing.
>
>I did not suggest to use more than one program.
>
>Uri

The previous post where i talked about branching factor i
was talking about the same program.

You want to parallellize it then don't you?

Have read some ICCAJs already?





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