GPUs can speed up many types of neural networks by over a factor of 30. - George
On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 8:35 PM, terry mcintyre <terrymcint...@yahoo.com> wrote: > ________________________________ > From: "dhillism...@netscape.net" <dhillism...@netscape.net> > >> Perhaps the biggest problem came from an unexpected quarter. MC playouts >> are very fast and neural nets are a bit slow. (I am talking about the >> forward pass, not the off-line training.) In the short time it took to feed >> a board position to my net and get the results, I could have run enough MC >> playouts to obtain a better estimate of the ownership map. :/ > > Would GPUs be better suited to neural nets than to MC playouts? If so, would > this tilt the playing field in favor of neural nets on GPUs,. giving them an > advantage over MC on relatively fewer general-purpose CPUs? A GPU with > hundreds of shaders is relatively cheap compared to even a handful of x86 > processors. > > The same argument may apply to other forms of classification which map well > to GPUs. > > > ________________________________ > A Good Credit Score is 700 or Above. See yours in just 2 easy steps! > > _______________________________________________ > 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/
