Instruct: Identify the main and secondary category of Arxiv papers based on the titles and abstracts
Query: Scaling Monte Carlo Tree Search on Intel Xeon Phi   Many algorithms have been parallelized successfully on the Intel Xeon Phi
coprocessor, especially those with regular, balanced, and predictable data
access patterns and instruction flows. Irregular and unbalanced algorithms are
harder to parallelize efficiently. They are, for instance, present in
artificial intelligence search algorithms such as Monte Carlo Tree Search
(MCTS). In this paper we study the scaling behavior of MCTS, on a highly
optimized real-world application, on real hardware. The Intel Xeon Phi allows
shared memory scaling studies up to 61 cores and 244 hardware threads. We
compare work-stealing (Cilk Plus and TBB) and work-sharing (FIFO scheduling)
approaches. Interestingly, we find that a straightforward thread pool with a
work-sharing FIFO queue shows the best performance. A crucial element for this
high performance is the controlling of the grain size, an approach that we call
Grain Size Controlled Parallel MCTS. Our subsequent comparing with the Xeon
CPUs shows an even more comprehensible distinction in performance between
different threading libraries. We achieve, to the best of our knowledge, the
fastest implementation of a parallel MCTS on the 61 core Intel Xeon Phi using a
real application (47 relative to a sequential run).

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The categories of this paper are: physics
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The categories of this paper are: dg-ga
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The categories of this paper are: atom-ph
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The categories of this paper are: supr-con
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The categories of this paper are: patt-sol
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The categories of this paper are: plasm-ph
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The categories of this paper are: mtrl-th
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The categories of this paper are: chao-dyn
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The categories of this paper are: alg-geom
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The categories of this paper are: astro-ph
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The categories of this paper are: nucl-th
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The categories of this paper are: q-fin
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The categories of this paper are: hep-lat
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The categories of this paper are: bayes-an
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The categories of this paper are: hep-ex
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The categories of this paper are: adap-org