Nvidia seems to have come with a new GPU ... as usual we always wonder if this can be ported to a chess engine. What caught my eye is the "double precision" calculations. Can this be useful for a chess engine?
https://devblogs.nvidia.com/parallelfor ... de-pascal/
What I want to know is can this be ported to a chess engine?
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Re: What I want to know is can this be ported to a chess eng
NoM ANSARI wrote:Nvidia seems to have come with a new GPU ... as usual we always wonder if this can be ported to a chess engine. What caught my eye is the "double precision" calculations. Can this be useful for a chess engine?
https://devblogs.nvidia.com/parallelfor ... de-pascal/
https://chessprogramming.wikispaces.com/GPU
http://chessgpgpu.blogspot.com/
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Re: What I want to know is can this be ported to a chess eng
Isn't there ANYTHING that can be done on the GPU?
It would be good if it could off-load SOMETHING from the CPU, like for example Monte Carlo during the late middlegame onwards - that might add some elo to an engine.
I know all chess programmers are saying the same thing: it's not possible, but it would be amazing if someone could creatively find a use for these powerful cards.
It would be good if it could off-load SOMETHING from the CPU, like for example Monte Carlo during the late middlegame onwards - that might add some elo to an engine.
I know all chess programmers are saying the same thing: it's not possible, but it would be amazing if someone could creatively find a use for these powerful cards.
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Re: What I want to know is can this be ported to a chess eng
5 million nps? That's good for those old cards.
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Re: What I want to know is can this be ported to a chess eng
It had been said & written hundred times that the GPUs are useless for computer chess....
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Re: What I want to know is can this be ported to a chess eng
It's possible, but when GPUs are used as compute engines it is usually for floating-point calculations, and most chess programs use very little floating point.
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Re: What I want to know is can this be ported to a chess eng
GPU won't work well with chess programming because each GPU kernel thread is designed to run floating instructions in a serial way, ideally without a loop and branching. Obviously, this is not the case for chess.