Oh, and possibly there may be complications in case you have multiple CPUs but only one GPU?
On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 10:42 AM, Mark Boon <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 10:30 AM, Michael Williams > <[email protected]> wrote: >> Yeah, that seems like it would work well. And you could probably do many >> playouts at each leaf, instead of one. >> > > From the little I know about GPU programming, I understood that in > order to get good parallelism you'll have no choice but to do many > simulations simultaneously to make it worth it. > > But for MCTS it's not very efficient to simulate the same leaf many > times at once. So it will probably only be worth it if you can get in > a fairly large number of simulations at similar cost to one simulation > done by a CPU. > > Mark > _______________________________________________ Computer-go mailing list [email protected] http://dvandva.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/computer-go
