[gnugo-devel] multi-threaded GNU go

[Christian Bienia]

Hi,

I'm a computer science grad student at Princeton University and
assistant instructor for the course COS 598A "Parallel Architecture &
Programming". We're considering to offer GNU Go as a parallelization
project to the students this semester.

Our idea is to let a small number of students parallelize GNU Go with
pthreads with some help and guidance from my side. The goal of the
project is to get a version of GNU Go which scales well up to 64 CPUs.
The GNU Go task list includes a multi-threaded engine, so we could
submit the changes to allow them to be merged with the GNU Go main
distribution.

Before we can make a final decision, I wanted to get an opinion on that.
Do you think it would make a good parallelization project? How difficult
would GNU Go be to parallelize?

- Chris