Author: Randall Jouett
Date: 14:22:46 06/21/02
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On June 21, 2002 at 14:45:57, Dann Corbit wrote: >>I agree with all of these remarks 100%, which leads me to a question: >> >> >>Why haven't we seen a Beowulf-clustering program developed by a group >>of folks on the Intenet yet? I mean, I'm sure most of us are familiar >>with NetHack and the like, which was developed by various net users. >>Why not a NetChess that uses clustering? With a setup like this, >>it would seem that you'd probably gain 200 ELO points or something :^). >> >> >>Seriously, I'd imagine that companies such as Red Hat and the like >>would be more than happy to sponsor a setup like this in the WCCC. >>Mainly, I guess they'd pay for the phone time to connect to the >>cluster, because lugging a system like this to a tournament would >>be a major pain. OTOH, if each member of the NetChess team >>(which could be numerous) brought along a machine or two to the >>tournament, then maybe it wouldn't be all that bad. >> >> >>IMHO, a setup like this would totally dominate the WCCC. OTOH, >>what the heck do I know? :^) > >There are programs like that. >For intance: >Cilkchess >Star Socrates >Zugzwang >P.ConNerS Kewl. I'll search the net and see if I can find any web sites. Thanks, Dann. >Probably some others. Unfortunately, the speedup these programs get for having >a massive pile of CPU's is rather pathetic. For having hundreds of CPU's, they >have barely more compute power than a small SMP machine. Wow. You would think that this wouldn't be the case, huh? >I think someone needs to totally rethink the AMP chess paradigm and come up >with something better. Based on what you've just told me, I'd have to agree :^). Randall
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