Re: [gnugo-devel] multi-threaded GNU go

[Darren Cook]

> Our idea is to let a small number of students parallelize GNU Go with
> pthreads with some help and guidance from my side. The goal of the
> project is to get a version of GNU Go which scales well up to 64 CPUs.

IIRC someone did these changes to GNU Go a year or two back, but the
required changes were both widespread and gave something like a 20%
slowdown for people using a single CPU. Because of the latter the
changes were not incorporated. So you'll definitely want to study that
mailing list thread before starting.

Even if the project fails to give good scaling I think it will still be
educational and useful for your students; the future is multi-core not
higher clock speeds. Unfortunately.

Darren