128 CPU Stockfish Cluster Comments.

[Leo]

Sorry if I missed a thread on this. I was taken aback by the 4 billion nps of this machine. Its found here:http://www.ipmanchess.yolasite.com/amd- ... -bench.php Of course deep blue was at 200 million nps in the 1990s. What would this entity be capable of? I think chess engines have become better at using more cores in the last few years but still need improvement using all these cores. It seems like it could take the chess world where no man has gone before.

[pferd]

Here are some numbers for the cluster branch against a single 32 thread machine. Would love to see this monster in action

https://github.com/official-stockfish/S ... /pull/1931

[M ANSARI]

With all these threads available maybe some of those cores would be better utilized for Monte Carlo search. You reach a point of diminishing returns and maybe those resources are better used via a different form factor.

[henk2]

If some billionaire was willing to waste all his money on dedicated Stockfish 10 ASICs.
Then the cluster could easily be blown away.

4 billion nps is still very impressive though.

[Leo]

Here are some numbers for the cluster branch against a single 32 thread machine. Would love to see this monster in action

https://github.com/official-stockfish/S ... /pull/1931

In those tests the cluster did whomp on the 32 core SF. It looks like it maxed out at 130 Elo better.

[Leo]

With all these threads available maybe some of those cores would be better utilized for Monte Carlo search. You reach a point of diminishing returns and maybe those resources are better used via a different form factor.

There are diminishing returns. Yes, I would like to see Monte Carlo tried out on it.

[Dann Corbit]

If some billionaire was willing to waste all his money on dedicated Stockfish 10 ASICs.
Then the cluster could easily be blown away.

4 billion nps is still very impressive though.

That billionaire would learn the lesson of Hydra.
A dump truck full of money will make an engine that will win for 4 years.
Ten years later, a commodity PC will give it a spanking.

[Jouni]

This +130 gives nice 3700 ELO! Maybe the upper limit for chess?

[Dann Corbit]

This +130 gives nice 3700 ELO! Maybe the upper limit for chess?

I doubt it, but possibly an upper limit for shared hash table alpha-beta.
On the other hand, the evaluation of LC0 is clearly vastly superior to the evaluation of Stockfish (due to less than 0.1% as many nodes during search giving an answer that is about equal in quality).
So suppose that the evaluation of Stockfish were tuned to equal the evaluation of LC0.
Perhaps the limit is 5000 Elo.

[Werewolf]

This +130 gives nice 3700 ELO! Maybe the upper limit for chess?

I doubt it, but possibly an upper limit for shared hash table alpha-beta.
On the other hand, the evaluation of LC0 is clearly vastly superior to the evaluation of Stockfish (due to less than 0.1% as many nodes during search giving an answer that is about equal in quality).
So suppose that the evaluation of Stockfish were tuned to equal the evaluation of LC0.
Perhaps the limit is 5000 Elo.

No, I doubt any entity will get over 4000 elo. I think we'll start to see the draw rate dramatically rise as this level of play is reached. But I'd love to be proved wrong.