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|| [[image:The_voyage_of_the_Pequod.jpg link="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_voyage_of_the_Pequod.jpg"]] ||~   || **Moby**,
a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiprocessing|multiprocessor]] chess program participating at the [[WCCC 1989]], running on a large (200 to 400 processor) [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meiko_Scientific#Computing_Surface|Meiko Computing Surface]] based on [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inmos|Inmos]] T800 [[Transputer]] chips, installed at [[University of Edinburgh]] as part of the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edinburgh_Concurrent_Supercomputer|Edinburgh Concurrent Supercomputer Project]]. Moby was a descendant of [[Cyrus 68K]], whose development begun by [[Mark Taylor]] and [[David Levy]] in 1985, the parallel implementation was done by [[Greg Wilson]].  ||
|| [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moby-Dick|Moby-Dick]] and the Voyage of the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pequod_%28Moby-Dick%29|Pequod]] <ref>[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moby-Dick|Moby-Dick from Wikipedia]]</ref> ||~   ||^   ||
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=Authors=
* [[David Levy]]
* [[Mark Taylor]]
* [[Greg Wilson]]

=Description=
based on [[WCCC 1989]] booklet <ref>[[http://www.computerhistory.org/chess/full_record.php?iid=doc-434fea055cbb3|Kings Move - Welcome to the 1989 AGT World Computer Chess Championship.]] Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, Courtesy of [[Peter Jennings]], from [[The Computer History Museum]], [[http://archive.computerhistory.org/projects/chess/related_materials/text/3-1%20and%203-2%20and%203-3%20and%204-3.1989_WCCC/1989%20WCCC.062302028.sm.pdf|pdf]]</ref>
|| Moby was a conventional searcher, but distributed the search across the available processors in a homogeneous fashion, that is all processors are carrying out the same type of operations, rather than some processors doing deep [[Scout|scout]] searches while others do more complete searches guided by the information returned by the scouts. [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Load_balancing_%28computing%29|Load balancing]] is archived by processor overloading - each processor supports a [[Hash Table|hash table]] manager responsible for part of the global [[Transposition Table|transposition table]]. One distinguished processor acts as system master, interacting with the user and handling file i/o when the [[Opening Book|opening books]] are consulted. ||

=See also=
* [[Various Classifications#Fiction|Fiction]]
* [[Various Classifications#Mammal|Mammal]]

=External Links= 
==Chess Program==
* [[http://www.game-ai-forum.org/icga-tournaments/program.php?id=363|Moby's ICGA Tournaments]]
==Misc==
* [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marine_Optical_Buoy|Marine Optical Buoy (MOBY) from Wikipedia]]
* [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moby-Dick|Moby-Dick from Wikipedia]]
* [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moby_Dick_%28Rhine%29|Moby Dick (Rhine) from Wikipedia]]

=References= 
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