Re: [Computer-go] Using GPUs?

2015-06-27 Thread Daniel Shawul
Yes it performed well for Hex8x8; i got a speed up of 60x compared to CPU when i tested it about 2 years ago on a not-so-modern GPU (128 cores IIRC). However, the playouts in Hex are much simpler than that of Go. For instance, I check for termination of game once when the board is completely full,

Re: [Computer-go] Using GPUs?

2015-06-27 Thread Nikos Papachristou
On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 4:20 PM, Darren Cook dar...@dcook.org wrote: Confirmed here: http://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2015/03/17/pascal/ So, currently they use a 32-bit float, rather than a 64-bit double, but will reduce that to 16-bit to get a double speed-up. Assuming they've been