Title :
Chess and supercomputers: details about optimizing Cray Blitz
Author :
Hyatt, Robert M. ; Nelson, Harry L.
Author_Institution :
Alabama Univ., Birmingham, AL, USA
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;
Conference_Titel :
Supercomputing '90., Proceedings of
Conference_Location :
New York, NY
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-2056-0
DOI :
10.1109/SUPERC.1990.130041
