Even if it is not terribly powerful per core, it could in theory allow for more people to cheaply do scaling tests and experiment with different algorithms to see how they behave as the number of cores increases (assuming there are not some architecture limitations in the hardware design preventing this).
Lars Nilsson On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 8:00 AM, ds <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi! > > I saw this too, but the cores are ARM A9. With oakfoam one such core > does 150 playouts / second on 19x19 (iPad1 with NiceGo, the free version > of oakfoam for iPad), one i7-2600 core is more than 8 times faster. > > Even with good scaling a 64 core machine is only twice as fast as a > i7-2600 I would think. > > Detlef > > m Mittwoch, den 24.10.2012, 11:15 +0200 schrieb Petr Baudis: >> Hi! >> >> There is a new fairly exciting parallelization platform in the works, >> currently as a kickstarter project (that will unfortunately likely not >> make it since while it's technically awesome, its marketing/PR campaign >> was far from stellar, but if you like it, don't hesitate to pledge in >> the next three days yet :) : >> >> >> http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/adapteva/parallella-a-supercomputer-for-everyone/ >> >> It consists of a control processor (in fact an FPGA) and a grid of 16 >> parallel processors in slightly Cell-like arrangement, with a promise >> to dramatically grow the number of processors in future. Single board >> costs $99. >> >> Something worth knowing about, I think - while the processors >> currently have fairly small amount of local memory, unfortunately, they >> still seem to me as much more suitable for Computer Go than GPUs as the >> thread on each parallel processor can be completely independent from >> others. Perhaps if the project makes it (on kickstarter or in another >> way), this is the hardware side of the next Computer Go strength boost >> to come. >> >> Petr "Pasky" Baudis >> _______________________________________________ >> Computer-go mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://dvandva.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/computer-go >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Computer-go mailing list > [email protected] > http://dvandva.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/computer-go _______________________________________________ Computer-go mailing list [email protected] http://dvandva.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/computer-go
