Author: Dan Homan
Date: 14:31:44 07/20/99
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On July 20, 1999 at 15:19:52, Don Dailey wrote: >On July 20, 1999 at 00:45:58, hgkjhg wrote: > >>Don, is Cilkchess going to be released as a commersial or freeware program some >>time? > >I thought about releasing Occam when it gets good. But I don't want >to see 10000 occams on the chess server or at tournaments! I may release >a version before it gets too strong perhaps just an executable for linux >and windows. > >Probably there will be a parallel version of Occam that will be released >with the Cilk distribution as an example with source code. Cilk is free >and so would this be. But I don't know if I would release a really >advanced version. You will be surprised how simple it is to write a >parallel chess program when you see this. > >- Don Don, I was looking over the Cilk Pousse web page and it was pretty clear from this how to use Cilk to write a parallel chess program with minimal effort, but I had a question: Do you need to have local data structures (position, move list) at each node? It seemed to me (as I read the web page) that you would. My assumption is that this would create substantial overhead that would be a problem for non-parallel versions of the program. Second question: Can cilk be compiled and used with C++ or does it require pure ANSI C? - Dan
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