Re: [computer-go] Computer Go hardware

["Frank de Groot" <frank@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> I'd rather have a strong program that doesn't use all available memory and
> CPU power than a weak program that uses all available resources :)

Yes. But I don't think that using a lot of CPU power and a lot of RAM is
neccessarily bad for a Go program.

Comp. chess afficionado's buy dual-Opterons with 4 GB RAM or more to run
their favorite chess programs on.

Chess programs get better with added CPU power/RAM because search scales
with the hardware (as you know best).

It is a kind of "belief" of mine that the way forward in Go is using similar
methods as the chess programmers have used in addition to things like
pattern matching etc.

I don't subscribe to the idea of: "Go is much harder than Chess so the
approaches
used in Chess won't work so we don't need powerful hardware either". On the
contrary I think that Go needs much better hardware, or a few genius ideas
(I'm out of those at the moment.. ;)

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