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Subject: Re: Pentium 4

Author: blass uri

Date: 21:25:58 06/28/00

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On June 28, 2000 at 21:51:33, Jorge Pichard wrote:

>On June 28, 2000 at 21:17:06, Jorge Pichard wrote:
>
>>On June 28, 2000 at 20:31:30, Michael Neish wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>Sorry if this is old news on this board, but I just read that the Pentium 4 is
>>>now out, clocking at 1.5 GHz.
>>>
>>>Any comments?
>>
>>
>>It would be interesting to see eight of these Intel Pentium 4 prosessors capable
>>of 1.5 billion intructions per second inside of a Primergy Netsetser
>>in the near future against Kasparov playing in G/60 Minutes per side. I would
>>say that a Primergy of this capacity will almost have 25% of the calculation
>>power of Deep Blue.
>>
>
>I just read the calculating power of Deep Blue a few minutes ago, it was capable
>of calculating 200 Millions positions per second while the Frankfurt Primergy
>was only capable of 2.8 Miliions positions per second. Now if the Pentium 4
>which is only twice as fast as each 700 Mhz on the Primergy Netserver
>then it will only have 12% of the calculating power of Deep Blue. Probably in a
>mini match of 5 or 7 games, in time control of G/30 per side will this
>future Primergy Netserver be able to beat Kasparov.

You cannot learn of the calculation power by the number of nodes per second
because the number of nodes per second is different with different programs even
if you use the same machine.

You can learn better about it if you give the 2 hardware the same problem(for
example finding all the primes numbers that are not more than 99999999999999)
and compare the times with the same program.

The calculation power is also not the only important thing and the software is
also important.

There is no way to compare between the software of deeper blue and the software
of Fritz because deeper blue is dead and does not play so we cannot do games
between Fritz and Deeper blue when we give Fritz more time to compensate for the
hardware disadvantage.

Uri



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