> If you're looking for spare processors, how about a "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
> program for Go?-)
It appears that the Chess community has had such a project already:
ChessBrain: a Linux-Based Distributed Computing Experiment
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/6929
ChessBrain II - A Hierarchical Infrastructure for Distributed
Inhomogeneous Speed-Critical Computation
IEEE CIG06, Reno NV, May 2006 (6 pages)
(IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence and Games)
http://chessbrain.net/docs/chessbrainII.pdf
old project site:
http://chessbrain.net/
>From the chessbrainII paper, it seems they considered Go, but
before the recent developments that made parallel processing
promising. The papers might also be interesting for their discussion
of parallel tree search and communication issues.
Claus
> Local versions of the top programs could offer to connect to their main
> incarnation's games,
> explaining internal state ("it is sure it will win", "it thinks that group is
> dead", ..) in
> exchange for borrowing processing resources. Or, instead of doing this on a
> per-program basis,
> there could be a standard protocol for donating processing power from
> machines whose users view a
> game online.
>
> That way, the more kibitzes a game attracts, the better the computer
> player plays; and if the game cannot hold an audience, the computer
> player might start to seem distracted, losing all those borrowed
> processors;-)
>
> Mogo might even find some related research at INRIA ([EMAIL PROTECTED]
> style (desktop) grid computing, ..), so perhaps there's scope for
> collaboration there?
>
> Claus
>
> Q: why do you search for extra-terrestrial intelligence?
> A: we've exhausted the local search space.
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