I don't know if it is of any value, but Les Fernandez has a vendor who will lend time on a big array of GPU cards for computation of EGTBs.
I have no idea how difficult it would be to port EBTB systems to GPU cards (for instance, they can't do recursion if I recall correctly) but it might be worth taking a look at for you EGTB programming experts.
See the CCC programming forum post by Les Fernandez:
http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopi ... 00&t=30404
Les Fernandez has compute resources
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Re: Les Fernandez has compute resources
If the vendor has also a big array of fast computers with lot of RAM and fast disk arrays, that might be interesting. (I'm not aware of any successful implementation of EGTB generator for GPU).
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Re: Les Fernandez has compute resources
He also has some big Linux arrays of some kind also. Les' message spells out the details.
Re: Les Fernandez has compute resources
GPU cards might later on be useful for compressing the database. I imagine that might be limited by CPU rather than by memory bandwidth.
Generating endgame tables is still much more a software problem than a hardware problem.
Generating endgame tables is still much more a software problem than a hardware problem.