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Open MP chess SMP study

Posted: Sat Jan 05, 2019 2:25 am
by Dann Corbit
I think this is the first project I have looked over that used Open MP to do the SMP for a chess search study:
https://github.com/hennimohammed/parallel_chess_engine

Re: Open MP chess SMP study

Posted: Sat Jan 05, 2019 7:23 am
by mkchan
Dann Corbit wrote: Sat Jan 05, 2019 2:25 am I think this is the first project I have looked over that used Open MP to do the SMP for a chess search study:
https://github.com/hennimohammed/parallel_chess_engine
I had done it myself for perft but it didn't seem to scale as well as making a thread pool myself and doing it. I had figured there was some overhead I didn't know about plus it's a bit annoying to do nested parallelism with.