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 > Computer-go@dvandva.org > http://dvandva.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/computer-go > _______________________________________________ Computer-go mailing list Computer-go@dvandva.org http://dvandva.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/computer-go
