On 30 October 2012 14:01, Torsten Anders <torsten.and...@beds.ac.uk> wrote:
> > On 30 Oct 2012, at 11:26, alexgian wrote: > > Interesting. I have been meaning to look at gecode for a while, now no > more excuses. What I like best of its features is use of multiprocessors > locally. I am assuming that it will comply with the model described by > Christian Schulte's "Programming Constraint Services" (Well, I see > Christian is heavily involved in gecode). Just wondering, as I see it has > its own search engine. Would that mean there would be two approaches to > search engines, I wonder? > > > Actually, you can do parallel search -- using either multiple local > processors or networked computers -- already in Mozart 1 (it was broken in > recent releases introducing the new distribution system, but with older > versions it is still there). You can see in Christian Schulte's book you > mentioned that he is actually using Oz (Mozart 1) there ;-) > Yes, but the idea that multiprocessors will be used in parallel *tranparently* (I assume) for constraint propagation on the local machine - whereas I can create parallel searches as I want them for networked computers - is rather appealing. Oh well, not long to wait...
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