On Thu, 2008-10-02 at 19:17 +0200, Michael Markefka wrote: > So, when are we going to see distributed computing? [EMAIL PROTECTED], > [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] With Go engines that scale well to > increased > processing capacity, imagine facilitating a few thousand PCs to do the > computing. For good measure, [EMAIL PROTECTED] as about 800,000 nodes online > as > of now.
This subject keeps coming up - but it's not a good application at all for this type of thing. I think if you read the instructions on how to do this you will see that it's extremely impractical for a go program. Imagine trying to build an interactive chess or go program on an incredibly slow network and you will get the picture. Imagine the network is something like using email to communicate. The [EMAIL PROTECTED] type of stuff is based on a bunch of machines being able to go off and do a work unsupervised - and basically communicating with a single centralized process somewhere - very infrequently. It might be possible to build a huge cooperating go program network but I believe it would require building our own system - and it would be far from trivial. It would have to be designed in an extremely fault tolerant way too. - Don > > What's the approximate increase in playing level per increase in > processing power? Any rough law for that? > > Best regards, > Mike > > > Olivier Teytaud wrote: > > Mogo was allowed to use 800 cores, not more, and only for games against > > humans. > > We have no acces to so many cores for computer-computer games (if there > > were only three teams involved, > > we could :-) ). > > For some games Huygens was unaivalable at all, and mogo played with much > > weaker hardware (some quad-cores, > > however, it is not so bad :-) ). > > > > Best regards, > > Olivier > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > _______________________________________________ > > computer-go mailing list > > computer-go@computer-go.org > > http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/ > > _______________________________________________ > computer-go mailing list > computer-go@computer-go.org > http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/
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