How MIT's 1995 Supercomputer Chess Loss Gave Birth to Work Stealing

In 1995, MIT borrowed Sandia's Paragon, then the world's second-fastest supercomputer with 1824 nodes, for a computer chess championship, only to lose to a Pentium-based system — an outcome that led to the creation of the work stealing technique.

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