Chess960@home
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Chess960@home is a distributed computing
project that runs on the BOINC software platform. It aims to create a vast collection of Chess960
games and to publish it on the internet for public use.
In Chess960@home one half-move
is one workunit. The deadline for workunits is short, only 24 hours. The workunits typically take from one to fifteen minutes to complete, depending on the computer.
The games take approximately 60 to 80 moves, which is 120 to 160 workunits. There are a few hundred games running in parallel and some 50 to 60 games are completed each day.
The project is in a test stage as of mid-December 2006, but it had over 3000 active hosts and over 380 GigaFLOPS
of processing power.
Distributed computing
Distributed computing is a field of computer science that studies distributed systems. A distributed system consists of multiple autonomous computers that communicate through a computer network. The computers interact with each other in order to achieve a common goal...
project that runs on the BOINC software platform. It aims to create a vast collection of Chess960
Chess960
Chess960 is a chess variant invented and advocated by former World Chess Champion Bobby Fischer, originally announced on June 19, 1996 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. It employs the same board and pieces as standard chess, but the starting position of the pieces is randomized along the players' home...
games and to publish it on the internet for public use.
In Chess960@home one half-move
Ply (game theory)
In two-player sequential games, a ply refers to one turn taken by one of the players. The word is used to clarify what is meant when one might otherwise say "turn"....
is one workunit. The deadline for workunits is short, only 24 hours. The workunits typically take from one to fifteen minutes to complete, depending on the computer.
The games take approximately 60 to 80 moves, which is 120 to 160 workunits. There are a few hundred games running in parallel and some 50 to 60 games are completed each day.
The project is in a test stage as of mid-December 2006, but it had over 3000 active hosts and over 380 GigaFLOPS
FLOPS
In computing, FLOPS is a measure of a computer's performance, especially in fields of scientific calculations that make heavy use of floating-point calculations, similar to the older, simpler, instructions per second...
of processing power.