Game-tree search plays an important role in the field of artificial intelligence . in this paper we characterize and compare two parallel game-tree search workloads in chess on two intel xeon 游戏树搜索(game-treesearch)一直以来在人工智能领域扮演着极其重要的角色,并行游戏树搜索更是该领域的热点研究问题。