Author: Jan-Frode Myklebust
Date: 15:40:31 04/26/98
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On April 26, 1998 at 17:54:24, Don Dailey wrote: > >Currently there is no plan for commercial products unless I do it >with MIT which is not likely. However I am putting together a >free parallel program. It will be very simple (along the lines >of the simple public domain chess program currently available) but >much better. > >I don't expect it to be competitive with Crafty or any of the >current popular programs. If I'm lucky it'll be approximately >as strong as GNU chess but that remains to be seen. > >I will not spend more than about 3 days on it so it certainly >will not be fine tuned but will have all the standard stuff, >hash tables, selectivity etc. The evaluation will be piece >square table based and will be very primitive. I may add some dynamic >evaluation if I can get to it quickly. Stuff like square of the >pawn probable won't make it in though unfortunately. > >This will serve as a nice example of a parallel program and also show >off our great language Cilk. To run it parallel, it will be much >better to have a multiprocessor machine although one is not required. >Of course it runs slower if you specify more processors than the machine >actually has. Right now only Unix is supported for Cilk but the program >will compile on any serial machine (as a serial program) if you have >a standard ansi C compiler. But I can compile a version for any one >who is interested. > >Here are the cilk platforms you can run on, they all must have Unix: > > 1) Dec Alpha's, > 2) Intel pentiums > 3) SGI machines > 4) Sparc SMP's > >There is a version of Cilk for networks too but it's still under >development and is not quite ready for chess. What do you mean by this? Will i be able to run it on the Universities 50++ Sun ultra's and get good performance from it, or will it need a very fast connection between the machines?Sounds very interessting! > >By the way, we intend to port Cilk to Windows NT also. I do not >know what the timetable is though, but probably pretty soon. > >I would like to set up a nice serial version for windows with a >graphical interface if anyone shows any real interest. Does anyone >know what is involved with kludging Xboard (the windows version) >to work? I've done it on Unix but have no experience at all with >Windows except for some minor system administration at the lab. >Are there other user interfaces generally available (with protocol >documentation?) Well, why not try to make a version for the Fritz interface (if the protocol is freely available). Jan-Frode
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