Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 14:59:29 05/24/99
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On May 24, 1999 at 16:35:24, Jan-Frode Myklebust wrote: > > >>So the T3e isn't so attractive at present, but rest assured, there will be a >>'message-passing' crafty running one day, for clusters of machines or for the >>big boxes like the T3. > >What about the Origin 2000 machines, are they good for chess? or will the >distributed memory slow it down? > > -janfrode I am not sure how they work, so I can't answer, never having had my hands on one. If they are traditional shared memory (even if it is hiarchical in nature) it should work. The problem is, crafty makes _no_ assumptions about any hiarchy. It has no concept of locality, which means it would suffer if memory access time varies significantly depending on how far away the memory bank is.
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