Grid Computing for Artificial Intelligence
Yuya Dan · InTech eBooks · 2011
This chapter is concerned in grid computing for artificial intelligence systems. In general, grid computing enables us to process a huge amount of data in any fields of discipline. Scientific computing, calculation of the accurate value of π, search for Mersenne prime numbers, analysis of protein molecular structure, weather dynamics, data analysis, business data mining, simulation are examples of application for grid computing. As is well known that supercomputers have very high performance in calculation, however, it is quite expensive to use them for a long time. On the other hand, grid computing using idle resources on the Internet may be running on the reasonable cost. Shogi is a traditional game involving two players in Japan as similar as chess, which is more complicated than chess in rule of play. Figure 1 shows the set of Shogi and initial state of 40 pieces on 9 x 9 board. According to game theory, both chess and Shogi are two-person zero-sum game with perfect information. They are not only a popular game but also a target in the research of artificial intelligence.