Job-level computing with BOINC support

Abstract

Recently, Wu et al. introduced a general approach based on distributed computing named Job-Level (JL) Computing. JL Computing has been successfully used to construct the opening books of game-playing programs.? In order to support large-scale computing problems such as solving 7×7 killall-Go, or building opening books for 9×9 Go or Connect6, record databases are used to store JL computing results. In this paper, we further design a mechanism that combines the JL computing system with BOINC (Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing), so that we can leverage more computing power from volunteers to solve even larger problems. A preliminary experiment has been done to demonstrate the feasibility of the design.