>> Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud might be cheaper @ $0.10 per instance-hour >> consumed. > > doesn't the 'amazing amazon elastic waistband' require you to write > all of your code using windows-based hooks? that kind've turns me off.
You may be confusing with "Amazon Simple Storage Service" (which I've not studied). The compute cloud gives you a linux instance: http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/AmazonEC2/gsg/2006-10-01/ This is suited to go programs that can work on a cluster. The playstation multiprocessing looks very different: you get 1 general purpose CPU and 6 specialized CPUs. Their key feature is they have 256K of local memory - this is not cache, it is all the memory they can access. Not useful for UCT designs (which seem memory-limited currently) but fine for normal monte-carlo. It may also be ideal for running tactical search. In fact tactical search is around 6/7ths of the CPU cycles in a traditional go program, so a perfect fit? Darren _______________________________________________ computer-go mailing list computer-go@computer-go.org http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/
