[POLL] GPU Programming and Chess

[dangi12012]

With gpgpu performance having been 1-2 orders of magnitude faster than cpus per dollar and watt - what is your opinion for gpus in chessprogramming?
https://videocardz.com/newz/chinas-bire ... m2e-memory

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If you pressed other Reason - please explain!

[Lazy_Frank]

Told to MCTS: Learn play chess! is about the same as told to 3 months old baby: Learn high jumping!

[smatovic]

"The best way to predict the future is to invent it."
Alan Kay

If, a) I can implement NNUE, if b) I replace selectivity with NNOM++, if c) I increase nps throughput per worker with Zeta v099 running on a GPU it might be competitive against AB-NNUE CPU engines in some distant future.

I see a trend to increased single core AB-engine Elo performance, less parallel.

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Srdja

[supersharp77]

Tried it........unable to get it to coordinate properly on My Laptop on Fritz...Winboard Or Banksia Chess GUi's (so far)..

[smatovic]

Tried it........unable to get it to coordinate properly on My Laptop on Fritz...Winboard Or Banksia Chess GUi's (so far)..

Please follow the instructions from the README file or start in command line with --help option to get these, Zeta needs to query the hardware and create a config file first, further there is a 2 seconds gpu computation timeout on Windows OS which can be resolved by the delivered registry file, and it is Winboard/XBoard protocol. That being said, it is still a quite simple implementation of an chess engine. not much to see for the common user, or alike. You can PM me the file zeta.log if you encounter further issues.

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Srdja