The cluster uses Windows HPC operating system. Many Faces was running on the cluster using MPI. The Demo used a Cray computer running Windows HPC. A gorgeous GUI was developed for Surface (by Vectorform) that can talk to any GTP engine. I made a GTP engine that uses MPI and runs on a cluster, running GTP over a socket, and a proxy for the surface that translates from stdin/stdout to the socket.
The MPI/cluster version of Many Faces will be available free to users of Windows HPC. It won't run on other operating systems, and it won't run on a single machine or PC. It requires multiple nodes with MPI. This is the same configuration I used at the ICGA world championship, running MPI on a 32 core (4 nodes of 8 cores) cluster, generously provided by Microsoft. The current engine doesn't scale sell beyond 32 cores, but that is entirely an issue with my code, not Windows HPC or MPI. I hope to fix the scaling problem soon. The free version is not on the web site yet, but if you have an HPC cluster and want it, email me. David From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Angel "Java" Lopez Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2008 2:49 AM To: computer-go Subject: [computer-go] Windows HPC and Computer Go Hi people! I didn't attend to Microsoft PDC event last week. Yesterday, I watched part of the session about Windows High Performance Computing: HPC Session at last PDC <http://channel9.msdn.com/pdc2008/ES13/> http://channel9.msdn.com/pdc2008/ES13/ The presenter talks about a booth in the expo with computer go program. The slide says: "WHPC/Surface/Many Faces of Go - Surface for natural game play - Uses WHPC and MPI for internode communication: 4k games/sec/core - Won world championships at ICGA last month! - 32 core cluster - MFOG will be available for free with Windows HPC from Smart-games.com Available at the Parallel Computing Booth - Go Play against Many Faces and MOGO on Cray CX1! " (Surface is a multitouch device by Microsoft) Any information about that demo? It's not clear to me: - The tech used in 32 core cluster , was Windows HPC? or another? - The demo at the booth, used Cray vs Windows HPC? - I can't find info about "MFOG in HPC" at http://www.smart-games.com <http://www.smart-games.com/> I want to run a computer go program under Windows HPC, as a proof of concept. Any link, resource, welcome! I published a blog post with HPC related resources http://ajlopez.wordpress.com/2008/11/04/windows-high-performance-computing-h pc-and-programming-resources/ Angel "Java" Lopez http://ajlopez.wordpress.com/ http://www.ajlopez.com/en
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