Author: Danniel Corbit
Date: 21:38:08 07/28/98
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On July 28, 1998 at 23:43:08, Steffen Jakob wrote: >Hi all! > >Definitely it's a good idea to support multiprocessor machines like crafty is >doing. But, most people don't have computers with >1 CPU. More often they have >access (at least at night :-) to >1 computers. Therefore my question: did >anybody make experiments with chess programs and PVM? It would be pretty hard to manage things like hash tables across a net. If you had one gigabit/sec netcards, it might be doable. Mostly, that won't work so well on a 10 Mbit/sec net or even 100. I think something you could easily do and it would be fun would be to have a voting system. Have Crafty, Comet, Fritz, Rebel, etc. each running on a different node. At completion of the time interval, they send a message to a master node with analysis data included. This master node will examine the calculations of each independent node and make a final decision. This would also be a good place for AI, as a simple system like that would be fairly easy to "learn" from, since there are very few external inputs into the system. I bet it would lead to a few surprises also.
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