Я тоже кстати из ЛИАПа, с четвертого факультета, может и пересекались :)
On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 7:02 PM, Рождественский Дмитрий <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi all, > > I have got an idea to create a hardware accelerator for Go playing > software. It will probably be a USB (or maybe PCI-Express) device that will > be able to do some basic, but very time-consuming for general-purpose CPU > calculations very fast. For example load a goban layout, make a number of > random moves (as used in Monte-Carlo algorithm) and unload result back to a > computer. > > As long as it will be a hardware, it will be able to do specified > calculations only, but the speed will be very high. For example, making > just a copy of the particular goban layout will require typically about 10 > nanoseconds only (one internal clock cycle). Calculation of the validity > and results of a particular move (including a check for ko and captured > stones) will probably take 1 microsecond. This as usual may vary during > debugging, but the current move calculation engine draft I've started to > develop is about this figures. > > My nearest aims here are: > - to understand a demand from go playing software developers, and > - to understand what particular calculation chains are most demanded for > hardware acceleration. > > Dmitry > _______________________________________________ > Computer-go mailing list > [email protected] > http://dvandva.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/computer-go >
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