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

[Chrilly]

Yes, that is an important point. The Hydra hash-table replication method described in my previous mail has no problem with this situation.
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Mark Boon 
  To: computer-go 
  Sent: Monday, October 02, 2006 2:46 PM
  Subject: Re: [computer-go] Pay-as-you-go cluster?




  On 2-okt-06, at 09:35, Darren Cook wrote:


    *:asynchronously: once all leaf nodes have replied the minimax tree is made.



  Using a cluster is only going to work reliably if you design for the possibility that a node will never reply. One way to do that is assign nodes that finished already to the same task(s) of nodes that didn't reply yet.


  Mark






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