Author: Bruce Moreland
Date: 12:21:11 10/16/99
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On October 16, 1999 at 11:29:11, walter irvin wrote: >first i'm going to admit that i know as much about multi processing as i do >about brain surgery .but it just seems to me that if a person had say 4 cpu's a >way to attack the problem COULD be as follows . >1.first divide the moves if there are 20 then each gets 5 ect >2.after each cpu gets to say 5 ply take the high score and go with it .disconect >the other 3 cpu's transfer them up the tree to 6 ply do the same thing over and >over to get real deep ?????? > >maybe if you could get deep enough , you could turn tactics into strategy just >by sheer depth ??????? It is more complicated than this. The moves don't take the same amount of time to search, some of them take a long time. And this isn't just a hypothetical case, it will happen in every search. In a perfect world idle processors would go help out on searches that are taking a long time. bruce
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