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**[[Home]] * [[Engines]] * StarTech** || [[image:AdAstra.JPG]] ||~ || **StarTech** (*Tech), a massive parallel chess program based on [[Hans Berliner|Hans Berliner’s]] serial program [[HiTech]], performing the [[Parallel Search|parallel]] [[Jamboree]] search algorithm. It ran on a 512-processor [[Connection Machine|Connection Machine CM-5]] supercomputer using a [[Shared Hash Table|global transposition table]] shared among the processors. Unlike Hitech, StarTech does not use the [[Null Move Pruning|null-move search]], and uses the same [[Extensions|search extensions]] in both the serial and the parallel implementations <ref>[[Bradley Kuszmaul|Bradley C. Kuszmaul]] (**1995**). //The StarTech Massively Parallel Chess Program//. [[ICGA Journal#18_1|ICCA Journal, Vol. 18, No. 1]], [[http://supertech.csail.mit.edu/papers/startech.pdf|pdf]]</ref>. StarTech tied for third place at the [[ACM 1993]] <ref>[[Danny Kopec]], [[Monroe Newborn]], [[Michael Valvo]] (**1994**). //The 23rd ACM NACCC in Indianapolis//, in [[http://www.computerhistory.org/chess/full_record.php?iid=doc-431614f6cceea|The 24th ACM International Computer Chess Championship]] from [[The Computer History Museum]], [[http://archive.computerhistory.org/projects/chess/related_materials/text/3-1%20and%203-2%20and%203-3%20and%204-3.1994_24th_ICCC/1994%20ICCC.062303013.sm.pdf|pdf]]</ref>. Incorporating the ACM 1993 winner, the serial program [[Titan|Socrates II]] by [[Don Dailey]] and [[Larry Kaufman]], StarTech emerged to [[Star Socrates|*Socrates]]. || || [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_astra_(phrase)|Ad Astra]] <ref>[[Arts#YvonneKendall|Yvonne Kendall]] - Ad Astra: To the Stars, 2013 - Fabric, yarn, chair and suitcase, [[http://flottmann-hallen.de/event/884/flottmann-30-hoch|Flottmann 30 hoch]] - 30 years anniversary exhibition, [[Arts#Flottmann|Flottmann-Hallen]] in [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herne,_North_Rhine-Westphalia|Herne]], [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Rhine-Westphalia|North Rhine-Westphalia]], [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germany|Germany]], part of [[Arts#IndustrialHeritageTrail|The Industrial Heritage Trail]] of the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruhr|Ruhr area]], Photo by [[Gerd Isenberg]], September 18, 2016</ref> ||~ ||^ || [[toc]] =Acknowledgments= StarTech spans three universities and one corporation, with contributions from people at [[Carnegie Mellon University]] (CMU), the [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]] (MIT), the [[University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign#NCSA|National Center for Supercomputing Applications]] at the [[University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign]] (NCSA), and [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thinking_Machines_Corporation|Thinking Machines Corporation]]. Primary author [[Bradley Kuszmaul]] was supervised by [[Charles Leiserson|Charles E. Leiserson]], helped and supported by Hans Berliner and [[Chris McConnell]] for the serial version of HiTech, and further by [[Robert Blumofe|Robert D. Blumofe]], [[Mark Bromley]], [[Roger Frye]], [[Richard Karp]], [[John Mucci]], [[Ryan Rifkin]], [[James Schuyler]], [[David Slate]], [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Smarr|Larry Smarr]], [[Lewis Stiller]], [[Kurt Thearling]], [[Richard Title]], [[Al Vezza]], [[David Waltz]], and [[Michael Welge]] <ref>[[Bradley Kuszmaul|Bradley C. Kuszmaul]] (**1995**). //The StarTech Massively Parallel Chess Program//. [[ICGA Journal#18_1|ICCA Journal, Vol. 18, No. 1]], [[http://supertech.csail.mit.edu/papers/startech.pdf|pdf]], pp. 14, Acknowledgments</ref>. Hans Berliner, Richard Karp, David Slate, and Lewis Stiller all contributed to a mini-seminar on chess held at Thinking Machines Corporation on August 12, 1991. In particular, Richard Karp suggested that StarTech should be based on Hans Berliner’s HiTech rather than [[GNU Chess]] <ref>[[Bradley Kuszmaul|Bradley C. Kuszmaul]] (**1994**). //Synchronized MIMD Computing//. Ph. D. Thesis, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology|MIT]], [[http://supertech.csail.mit.edu/papers/thesis-kuszmaul.pdf|pdf]], pp. 146, Acknowledgments</ref>. =See also= * [[Various Classifications#Astronomy|Astronomy]] * [[Star Socrates]] =Publications= * [[Bradley Kuszmaul|Bradley C. Kuszmaul]] (**1994**). //Synchronized MIMD Computing//. Ph. D. thesis, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology|MIT]], [[http://supertech.csail.mit.edu/papers/thesis-kuszmaul.pdf|pdf]] * [[Chris Joerg]], [[Bradley Kuszmaul|Bradley C. Kuszmaul]] (**1994**). //Massively Parallel Chess//. Third DIMACS Parallel Implementation Challenge, [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rutgers_University|Rutgers University]], [[http://supertech.csail.mit.edu/papers/dimacs94.pdf|pdf]] * [[Bradley Kuszmaul|Bradley C. Kuszmaul]] (**1995**). //The StarTech Massively Parallel Chess Program//. [[ICGA Journal#18_1|ICCA Journal, Vol. 18, No. 1]], [[http://supertech.csail.mit.edu/papers/startech.pdf|pdf]] =Forum Posts= * [[http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.chess/browse_frm/thread/45699b80a93fde41|1993 ACM International Computer Chess Championship (with corrections)]] by [[Bradley Kuszmaul]], [[Computer Chess Forums|rec.games.chess]], February 19, 1993 * [[http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.chess/msg/5f2e7eeb8791dec7|Re: Hash tables----Clash!!!-What happens next?]] by [[Albert Gower]], [[Computer Chess Forums|rec.games.chess]], March 19, 1994 =External Links= * [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StarTech.com|StarTech.com from Wikipedia]] * [[https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Star|Star - Wiktionary]] * [[https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/star|star- Wiktionary]] * [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_%28disambiguation%29|Star (disambiguation) from Wikipedia]] * [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star|Star from Wikipedia]] * [[https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/tech|tech - Wiktionary]] * [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tech|Tech from Wikipedia]] * [[https://www.facebook.com/symetryyrtemys|Symetry]] - [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Per_aspera_ad_astra|Per Aspera Ad Astra]], [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube|YouTube]] Video > [[media type="youtube" key="FWgrxQF-E3U"]] =References= <references /> =What links here?= [[include page="StarTech" component="backlinks" limit="40"]] **[[Engines|Up one Level]]**