>From what the Mogo team has said, the inter-processor communications >requirements are high; they find it worthwhile to switch from ethernet to >infiniband, or even to a higher speed infiniband. In short, Mogo seems to be >bandwidth-limited.
An @home network might be better for things such as creating opening books, testing algorithms, etc. Terry McIntyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> We must stop dressing up the slaughter of foreigners as a great national cause. -- Sheldon Richman ----- Original Message ---- > From: Michael Markefka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: computer-go <computer-go@computer-go.org> > Sent: Thursday, October 2, 2008 10:17:34 AM > Subject: Re: [computer-go] Congratulations to David Fotland! > > So, when are we going to see distributed computing? [EMAIL PROTECTED], > [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] With Go engines that scale well to > increased > processing capacity, imagine facilitating a few thousand PCs to do the > computing. For good measure, [EMAIL PROTECTED] as about 800,000 nodes online > as > of now. > > What's the approximate increase in playing level per increase in > processing power? Any rough law for that? > > Best regards, > Mike > > > Olivier Teytaud wrote: > > Mogo was allowed to use 800 cores, not more, and only for games against > > humans. > > We have no acces to so many cores for computer-computer games (if there > > were only three teams involved, > > we could :-) ). > > For some games Huygens was unaivalable at all, and mogo played with much > > weaker hardware (some quad-cores, > > however, it is not so bad :-) ). > > > > Best regards, > > Olivier > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > _______________________________________________ > > computer-go mailing list > > computer-go@computer-go.org > > http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/ > > _______________________________________________ > computer-go mailing list > computer-go@computer-go.org > http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/ _______________________________________________ computer-go mailing list computer-go@computer-go.org http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/
