Yah, the starter kit has toooo small memories both on board and on the chip.
I believe Xeon Phi, or Knight Corner, is much more practical, though far expensive. One interesting feature of Knight Corner is the 512-bit register file which can have bitmaps of 19x19 board. Hideki Petr Baudis: <20121024091540.gc7...@machine.or.cz>: > 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 -- Hideki Kato <mailto:hideki_ka...@ybb.ne.jp> _______________________________________________ Computer-go mailing list Computer-go@dvandva.org http://dvandva.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/computer-go
