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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