Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 09:56:35 07/18/99
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On July 18, 1999 at 12:00:32, Francis Monkman wrote: >Hi Bob, hope you're doing fine! > >Some guy just posted this idea 'over there', wacky or what? > >On Sun Jul 18 08:41:18, Zeon wrote: >> Would it be possible for all our computers to analize in parallel?? >> say via a downloadable program?? >> >> I would gladly donate my PC and leave on line for the cause!! >> >> If a hundred did this for say an hour-surely the results would be >> interesting. >> >> 1000?? >> >> 10,000-100,000 WOW >> >> maybe this is a pipe dream-maybe its just not possible. >> >> But surely if it was 10-100,000 PC's in parallel we could WIN by >> sheer brute force(by analyizing every possible move) >> >> Comments welcome > >They have done this to break encrytion codes, searching for ET and >the DNA sequence... I think the programing and site management >requires time. This is a very interesting idea, maybe round II we >can do this... > >I figured if anyone can help out, you're the man. Interesting work? > >Please feel free to e-mail me. > >All the best! > >Francis > >PS I figure this is pretty much on-topic, no? The idea sounds attractive, until you realize that the game tree search is an exponential problem, not a linear one..... That makes it _very_ difficult for such a task to be done on computers...
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