[computer-go] Go hardware?

[Joshua Shriver]

Somewhat, I'm excited to... there has been work in using GPU's for
general purpose computing.  Take a look at http://www.gpgpu.org/

It seems now NVidia has brought it up a notch and making it even more
accessible and hardware designed for gpgpu.

-Josh

On 3/6/07, Eduardo Sabbatella <eduardo_sabbatella at yahoo.com.ar> wrote:
> Wow!
>
> Looking at this (5 minutes) I looks very promising,
> isn't anymore about hacking with the video card.
>
> It have an api, processing model, architecture model,
> nice looks good, very good.
>
> So Nvidia is going to sell neo-coprocesors now?
>
> :-)
>
> --- Joshua Nye <joshua.nye at gmail.com> escribió:
>
> > 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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