Re: Parallel processing

[Darren Cook <darren@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>In this post I'd like to discuss the possibility of building a highly
parallel
>(with 10 CPUs or more) computer in one's basement.

Try searching the web for "clusters", e.g. the Beowulf Cluster project at
NASA. If your program can be split up into independent parts that don't
need to share memory then this is maybe better. Putting two or more
processors on one motherboard can create slowdowns when both processors
want to use memory at the same time.

I've been doing some experiments in this area, planning to use a cluster
for go, but have not had time to do anything useful with it yet.

>develop. I think this problem can be solved by design a operating system
level
>controled parallel computer.  

I've not used it, but BEOS claims to be this.

Darren

P.S. minimax is easy to run in parallel, but I'm not sure standard
alpha-beta is.