I never tested my program seriously on many cores. Scalability of my program is probably much better than those of chess programs, but it is still far from linear. Those machines are too costly for my budget, anyway.Vinvin wrote:Great choice ! I'd go for AMD too ...
No chance to get a 8*6 cores machine with lower clock rate ?
For chess no improvement but as go is better in "parallelization" (because of monte-carlo algo) may be 48*2.4 Ghz is 50%+ faster than 24*2.8 Ghz ...
Hardware won't be enough, probably. I'll have to work hard on algorithms in order to have a chance. Also, there are rumors that Zen will run on a supercomputer. And many other programs are getting very strong. It will be very difficult.BTW, I'll follow the go tournament closely !
Zen go is very strong, I wish you success to catch it !
Thanks for your support.
Rémi