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Subject: Re: Engine code in GPU space?

Author: Slater Wold

Date: 23:40:14 05/29/04

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On May 29, 2004 at 16:59:32, Joshua Shriver wrote:

>A while back I came across and article that talked about running high
>computation code off of a GPU.
>
>Has anyone here looked into, use, or considered possibly writing chess code
>utilizing modern GPU's?
>
>One of the specs that was mentioned that a single GeForce 4 if the code was fine
>tuned properly would be equivalent to an x86 10ghz processor. While I find that
>number to be high, it still seems interesting if you could possibly do this for
>engines. If it's even 1/4 true, imagine having a couple video cards in a single
>box and using that for tree crunching.
>
>Any thoughts, comments or flames?
>
>Sincerely,
>Joshua Shriver
>
>P.S. I'll look up the website, one professor is actually writing a C library to
>utilize NVidia GPU's for floating point and vector calculations.

Where's the article?



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