About the development of Moyo Go Studio, software to (help) play the Oriental game of Go. Go is a two-player zero-sum game of perfect information. It is considered much harder than Chess. Currently, in spite of enormous effort expended, no computer program plays it above the level of a beginner.
Saturday, February 11, 2006
Multicore Hardcore
If there still was any doubt: Thanks to free market competition, we'll have desktop machines with hundreds of CPU cores in the foreseeable future.
Intel - nervous because their superior Itanium processor bit the dust and AMD's Opteron stole the glory - has announced they intend to put hundreds of CPU cores on a die.