Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 04:55:26 10/06/98
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On October 06, 1998 at 04:07:40, Peter Herttrich wrote: >Hello Bob, hello World ;-) > >Here are a question: Some time ago i saw an article here in germany >about splitted computerpower. They compiled a program with a special >library, made one machine the master and many other machines the >clients. Then the master told the clients what to calculate. >Was a very interesting thing, because they used different operating- >systems! Solaris, HPUX, AIX, LINUX and so on. So the whole construct >was heterogen. Is this possible with a program like Crafty? > yes. Jonathan Schaeffer used to do this in "Sun Phoenix". The current code in Crafty is not particularly well-suited to message-passing, because it depends on fine-grained parallelism, which doesn't fly on message- passing architectures. It also depends on fully shared memory for inter- process communication, which would be very expensive in a message-passing architecture. And finally, even things like the transposition table are accessed through shared-memory, which would not work at all on a message- passing architecture... It would take some work... >Then another question: Have you thrown a look at > > http://www.research.digital.com/wrl/itsy/ ? > >What do you think about porting Crafty to ITSY? Would be a very >strong pocket-chess-machine :-) > > >So much today. > >Peter Someone is looking at a "CE" implementation for hand-helds running windows... more later...
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