[computer-go] Cheap multiprocessing

2007-01-04 Thread John Tromp
Those of you looking to wring more performance out of your MonteCarlo Go programs might be interested in this article about installing Linux on the Sony PlayStation 3 and programming the 6 available SPE coprocessors on its Cell cpu:

Re: [computer-go] Cheap multiprocessing

2007-01-04 Thread steve uurtamo
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. s. __

Re: [computer-go] Cheap multiprocessing

2007-01-04 Thread Darren Cook
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

Re: [computer-go] Cheap multiprocessing

2007-01-04 Thread John Tromp
On 1/5/07, Darren Cook [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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

Re: [computer-go] Cheap multiprocessing

2007-01-04 Thread terry mcintyre
/ security [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message From: Don Dailey [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: computer-go computer-go@computer-go.org Sent: Thursday, January 4, 2007 7:43:37 PM Subject: Re: [computer-go] Cheap multiprocessing Darren, The 6 CPU's don't have to keep the tree - they only have to do