Hi!

On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 02:00:52PM +0200, ds wrote:
> I saw this too, but the cores are ARM A9. With oakfoam one such core
> does 150 playouts / second on 19x19 (iPad1 with NiceGo, the free version
> of oakfoam for iPad), one i7-2600 core is more than 8 times faster.
> 
> Even with good scaling a 64 core machine is only twice as fast as a
> i7-2600 I would think.

Of course, the performance is not stellar per se. However, Parallela
based solution would be much cheaper both to buy and to run; low power
consumption also means that there's no big deal in stacking many of them
together, though I'm not sure what memory sharing options there will be
in that case.

                                Petr "Pasky" Baudis
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