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Benchmarking Parallel Chess Search in Stockfish on Intel Xeon and Intel Xeon Phi Processors

Author : Pawel Czarnul

Published in: Computational Science – ICCS 2018

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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The paper presents results from benchmarking the parallel multithreaded Stockfish chess engine on selected multi- and many-core processors. It is shown how the strength of play for an n-thread version compares to 1-thread version on both Intel Xeon and latest Intel Xeon Phi x200 processors. Results such as the number of wins, losses and draws are presented and how these change for growing numbers of threads. Impact of using particular cores on Intel Xeon Phi is shown. Finally, strengths of play for the tested computing devices are compared.

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Title: Benchmarking Parallel Chess Search in Stockfish on Intel Xeon and Intel Xeon Phi Processors
Author: Pawel Czarnul
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Book: Computational Science – ICCS 2018
Print ISBN: 978-3-319-93712-0

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-93713-7

Copyright Year: 2018
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-93713-7_40

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