DocumentCode
3011956
Title
Chess and supercomputers: details about optimizing Cray Blitz
Author
Hyatt, Robert M. ; Nelson, Harry L.
Author_Institution
Alabama Univ., Birmingham, AL, USA
fYear
1990
fDate
12-16 Nov 1990
Firstpage
354
Lastpage
363
Abstract
The authors describe the architectural features that Cray Blitz uses to search approximately 200000 chess positions per second. They also describe the programming and algorithmic changes required to take advantage of each of several architectural features of the Cray family of computer systems
Keywords
Cray computers; games of skill; parallel architectures; Cray Blitz; algorithmic changes; architectural features; chess; programming; Clocks; Computer architecture; Hardware; Laboratories; Parallel algorithms; Pipelines; Registers; Sun; Supercomputers; Vectors;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Supercomputing '90., Proceedings of
Conference_Location
New York, NY
Print_ISBN
0-8186-2056-0
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/SUPERC.1990.130041
Filename
130041
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