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Subject: Re: Woohoo (thesis to read)

Author: Marc Boulé

Date: 06:43:13 01/07/04

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David,

You might get some ideas from this thesis:

[1] V. Manohararajah. Parallel alpha–beta search on shared memory
multiprocessors. Master’s thesis, University of Toronto, Department of
Electrical and Computer Engineering, Toronto, Canada, 2001.
www.eecg.toronto.edu/~manohv/mthesis.pdf

Good luck with your studies and have fun.

Marc Boulé

>I just got my wish for a thesis subject granted. I will write about
>parallelizing a chess program, or more specifically, the alpha beta like
>algorithm in a chess program. So my hobby (Chezzz) has now become my "job".
>
>But the precise details of the project are not ready yet. I will have to decide
>what exactly to focus on. One idea is to implement several forms of
>parallelizing and test their relative effeciency: with and without Young
>Brothers Wait, that scheme where two threads are searching the same, but they
>benefit because they share hash, AABAB or something?
>
>Those of you who have fiddled with parallelizing: Do you have any ideas about
>what to implement or examing etc. ?
>
>/David



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