On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 10:41:14AM +0900, Hideki Kato wrote:
> Mark Boon: <[email protected]>:
> >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.
>
> That's not correct. Leaf parallelism is efficient enough and can
> compete root parallelism.
Well, I'd argue root parallelism is not efficient enough either. ;-)
> Past bad results are mainly due to synchronizing all simulations
> invoked from a leaf.
Can you elaborate on an alternative to this? I thought that treating all
simulations invoked from a leaf as a single unit was the very point of
leaf parallelism.
--
Petr "Pasky" Baudis
UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are.
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