Re: Parallel Chess Engine

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From: Gareth McCaughan
Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2000 00:00

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Richard Edwards wrote:

> I was looking for a parallel aware Chess engine. Something that perhaps
> worked with the more common message passing systems such as MPI or PVM.
> These are typically used when building Beowulf style super computers.
> 
> Failing that I would be interested in any thoughts of porting an
> existing engine to a PVM or MPI architecture. Be that a good/bad or
> indifferent concept.

I believe that Bob Hyatt (author of Crafty, probably the
strongest of the free chess programs) is currently getting
Crafty to work on an 8-node Beowulf cluster he has access
to. So that might be a good space to watch...

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Gareth McCaughan  Gareth.McCaughan@pobox.com
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