[computer-go] Pay-as-you-go cluster?

[David Doshay]

Don Daily and I have discussed investigating MC scaling on my 72 node  
cluster.
We are running some MC physics simulations now, and I expect that the  
cluster
will be available within the month.

I agree that it most sensibly would be a research project, and that a  
few months
work would be needed to get things into a state that a "rented"  
cluster could easily
be set up for a tournament.

Cheers,
David



On 1, Oct 2006, at 10:40 AM, Rémi Coulom wrote:

> Chris Fant wrote:
>> Can someone please do this?  I'd love to see a good MC algo scaled  
>> out
>> to 100 CPUs in the next tourney.
> Well, I have access to that machine: https://www.grid5000.fr/
>
> But it is not so easy to scale a Monte-Carlo algorithm to work on a  
> large cluster. SMP with fast access to shared memory is very easy.  
> Finding a way to efficiently distribute UCT over a fast network  
> looks like a fun research project.
>
> Rémi
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