Re: [computer-go] Cheap multiprocessing

2007-01-06 Thread Eduardo Sabbatella Riccardi
Stop searching excuses to buy a PSP3 :-P On Thursday 04 January 2007 22:25, John Tromp wrote: > 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 availab

Re: [computer-go] Cheap multiprocessing

2007-01-04 Thread terry mcintyre
/ security [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message From: Don Dailey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: computer-go 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 useful work.

Re: [computer-go] Cheap multiprocessing

2007-01-04 Thread Don Dailey
Darren, The 6 CPU's don't have to keep the tree - they only have to do useful work. You could run a simulation on each of them. The question is how much memory is available for the whole system to run Linux and general purpose software on? - Don On Fri, 2007-01-05 at 09:07 +0900, Darren Cook

Re: [computer-go] Cheap multiprocessing

2007-01-04 Thread Hideki Kato
PS3's main memory is, however, 256MB which seems not enough. John Tromp: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >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 >

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 Chris Fant
Man, that Amazon thing sounds awesome. I wish I had an MC go program of my own to try it out with. On 1/4/07, Phil G <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud might be cheaper @ $0.10 per instance-hour consumed. - Original Message From: John Tromp <[EMAIL PROTECTED

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" (w

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 Phil G
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud might be cheaper @ $0.10 per instance-hour consumed. - Original Message From: John Tromp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: computer-go Sent: Thursday, January 4, 2007 2:25:34 PM Subject: [computer-go] Cheap multiprocessing Those of you looking to wring more performa