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2008-10-02 Thread Michael Markefka
Brilliant! Thank you, both of you, Peter and Claus! -Mike Claus Reinke wrote: Now, for the technical matter: Could somebody please point me to a quick rundown of how modern Go engines exactly utilize multicore environments and the workload is segregated and distributed? I don't have any sig

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2008-10-02 Thread Claus Reinke
>> Now, for the technical matter: Could somebody please point me to a quick >> rundown of how modern >> Go engines exactly utilize multicore environments and the workload is >> segregated and >> distributed? I don't have any significant knowledge on that, so any >> pointers would be much

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2008-10-02 Thread Peter Drake
Here's a start: http://hal.inria.fr/docs/00/28/78/67/PDF/icin08.pdf Gelly et al, The Parallelization of Monte-Carlo Planning Peter Drake http://www.lclark.edu/~drake/ On Oct 2, 2008, at 2:39 PM, Michael Markefka wrote: Now, for the technical matter: Could somebody please point me to a qu

Re: [computer-go] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

2008-10-02 Thread Michael Markefka
I think I'll respond here as not to further detract from David congratulory thread. :) While not addressing the replies separately, rest assured that I've read them all. Quickly picking up on what Claus wrote here, I agree that there might be some kind of "prestige angle" to exploit to get som

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2008-10-02 Thread Claus Reinke
> But for grids (instead of clusters), the communication will become much much > bigger - I'd like to study that carefully one day, I have no clear idea of > what is possible. > > A trouble is that on grids (at least the ones I've seen) there are often > faults. We'll have to be fault tolerant I g