[computer-go] Go hardware?

[Joshua Nye]

Has anyone tried writing code for Go what would work in parallel?
Would something like NVIDIA CUDA be useful?

http://developer.nvidia.com/object/cuda.html

--josh


On 3/6/07, Joshua Shriver <jshriver at gmail.com> wrote:
> Aye I wont discredit the power that can be obtained, just how much.
> Hydra is an interesting beast, but even it with all of it's dedicated
> FPGA's still has lost to Rybka which ran on a regular computer.
>
> I'd still like to see someone write a go evalutation function for an
> FPGA though.
> -Josh
>
> On 3/6/07, terry mcintyre <terrymcintyre at yahoo.com> wrote:
> >
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydra_(chess)
> >
> > Hydra, built with 64 Intel Xeons and a number of FPGAs - possibly 64 or 128,
> > "has so far no loss on record against an unaided human player in
> > over-the-board play."
> >
> > FPGA clock speeds may seem unimpressive, but when you have hundreds of
> > processors working in tandem, executing a large unit of work every cycle,
> > the combined results can be quite impressive. However, these beasties are
> > not really programmed, from what I have read; they are designed. FPGAs are
> > closer to computer circuitry than to programmable computers.
> >
> > On the other hand, there is at least one effort to develop a sort of
> > programming language/compiler for FPGAs.
> >
> > http://www.xilinx.com/publications/xcellonline/xcell_53/xc_hydra53.htm
> > goes into considerable detail. According to the author, each FPGA engine
> > performs a position evaluation in 9 cycles which would require 2000 on a
> > pentium; there are many such engines on each FPGA array, operating in
> > parallel.
> >
> > As for video cards, providing one can map the algorithm to the parallel
> > hardware, one may also see considerable speedups. Of course, that
> > three-letter word "map" hides a good bit of intellectual heavy lifting.
> >
> > Terry McIntyre
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message ----
> > From: Joshua Shriver <jshriver at gmail.com>
> > To: computer-go <computer-go at computer-go.org>
> > Sent: Tuesday, March 6, 2007 6:15:32 AM
> > Subject: Re: [computer-go] Go hardware?
> >
> > I've always been fascinated with things like this, especially FPGA boards.
> > Though from every article or post I've read concerning (at least
> > chess) and things like FPGA, video cards... the bug speed is to slow
> > to really be effective.
> >
> > -Josh
> >
> > On 3/5/07, Chris Fant <chrisfant at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Maybe this would make a good Go card:
> > >
> > >
> > http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/peripherals/nvidia-ships-128core-graphics-cards-for-highend-film-editors-graphics-pros-apple-excited-241478.php
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