Re: computer-go: FPGA

[David Fotland <fotland@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Many Faces of Go does about 30,000 tactical search nodes per second 
on a Pentium-450, so there is no need for an FPGA.  Just write faster
code :)  MFGO's code is not particularly optimized for speed, since I
have a very big and complex move generator.  Other programs have much
faster local searching than Many Faces.

And you can buy FPGA PCI cards for a few hundred dollars.  Do an
internet search to find where.

-David Fotland

At 10:02 PM 8/28/00 EDT, Compgo123@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>Recently I tried to write code for local tactical search. To improve the 
>search result, the code becomes more and more complicated and takes more and 
>more time. It now can only search about 20 end nodes per second on a 233 MHz 
>machine and it still need more code to produce desired results. It seems to 
>me a hardware improvement is needed to produce a good program.   
>

 Then there is the cost to implement the 
>FPGA in a PCI card. Many company will do this for you but with a big charge 
>(probably more than $10,000). The total cost to implement such a PCI card 
>with FPGA could run as high as $20,000 to $30,000. Unless one can find some 
>funding, it's difficult for an individual to do. 
>
>
>Dan Liu
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