Author: Gian-Carlo Pascutto
Date: 15:16:32 09/15/05
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On September 15, 2005 at 17:01:37, Dann Corbit wrote: >On September 15, 2005 at 16:23:13, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote: > >>On September 15, 2005 at 15:17:13, Michael Yee wrote: >> >>>On September 15, 2005 at 15:13:22, Joshua Shriver wrote: >>> >>>>Has anyone tried writing an engine that uses PVM, MPI, or Mosix? >>>> >>>>If you had gigabit, or even fibre wire would the latency still be a problem? >>>> >>>>Josh >>> >>>The chessbrain project actually used a distributed beowulf over the internet: >>> >>>http://www.chessbrain.net/ >> >>And they never published any serious result or test. > >This is interesting: >http://www.chessbrain.net/docs/chessbrain-discc.pdf > >Additional overviews: >http://www.chessbrain.net/docs/thechessbrainproject.pdf >http://www.chessbrain.net/docs/cblinuxjournal0903.pdf There is nothing interesting in there. In fact these reports don't do much more than say "we connected a lot of computers and had them play chess". No single performance metric. Why? Was the speedup on 1000 machines <=1 ? -- GCP
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