Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 17:15:43 06/21/02
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On June 21, 2002 at 18:48:53, Keith Evans wrote: [snip] >Just a quick note - when I looked into Cilk a little while back it looked like >they were more into SMP systems now (probably because they were more available >to them and performed better) and weren't supporting AMP in their latest >releases. I thought that Cilk was pretty slick though, and even ran a few >programs on an SMP box running Linux. Unfortunately as far as I know they don't >make the source to their chess program available. If I'm wrong about any of >this, then please post details. From: http://supertech.lcs.mit.edu/cilk/index.html We find this: "1999 World Computer Chess Championship Cilkchess competed in the 1999 World Computer Chess Championship, June 14-20, 1999 in Paderborn, Germany. Cilkchess was written in Cilk-5, and ran on a 256-processor SGI Origin 2000 at NASA Ames." From: http://supertech.lcs.mit.edu/cilk/FAQ/section1.html#whatiscilk We find this: "Question 1.1. What is Cilk? Cilk is a language for multithreaded parallel programming based on ANSI C. Cilk is designed for general-purpose parallel programming, but it is especially effective for exploiting dynamic, highly asynchronous parallelism, which can be difficult to write in data-parallel or message-passing style. Cilk has been developed since 1994 by the Supercomputing Technologies Group at the MIT Laboratory for Computer Science. Cilk has been used for research, teaching, and for coding applications such as a virus shell assembly simulator and three chess programs."
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