Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 14:26:08 05/31/01
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On May 31, 2001 at 17:20:08, John Wentworth wrote: >I don't know much about coding for a multiprocessor chess program, but is it >possible to code a multiprocessor program that would harness the processing >power of multiple PC's that are networked together instead of one PC with >multiple processors? yes it is. However, the problems are non-trivial to handle. Network bandwidth is _far_ less than memory bandwidth on a PC. And on a PC, memory bandwidth is not great itself, so you can guess how the net bandwidth looks. if you mean machines connected over a WAN rather than a LAN, then network jitter and lag introduce additional problems that have to be handled. All are managable to an extent, but just not easily...
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