The Worlds Largest Chess Computer!
Carlos Justiniano
grid devoted to creating a massive chess computer. Last December
ChessBrain played its first games of chess. The entire system is now
operational and playing several games daily.
Since its inception, the project has been well received by the
international community. ChessBrain has a number of core developers
who are aided by hundreds of contributors from 27 different countries
around the world who donate the use of their computers.
Each contributor runs a small PeerNode program on one or more
computers, which enables their machines to process chess positions for
the central SuperNode. The resulting networks of machine's forms the
ChessBrain Network, a computational grid.
The project is functionally similar to other distributed computing
projects such as Seti@home, Folding@home and distributed.net. To
participate you simply download a client and allow it to run on one or
more computers. Clients are available for Microsoft Windows, Linux
and MacOSX.
Now that ChessBrain is functional, the project has announced its
intention to go for a world record and is currently looking for new
members. The world record will be for the largest number of
distributed computers used to play a single game of chess! The
project has successfully used hundreds of machines in trial tests and
is looking to increase its numbers.
We invite you to visit the project site and learn more about the
project.
http://www.chessbrain.net