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Subject: ASCI White vs. Deep Blue

Author: Lonnie Cook

Date: 12:30:08 09/23/01


* It weighs 106 tons

* costs 110M for the unit itself (doesn't include the ungodly sum to run it
every day)

* Has 8,192 IBM Power3 processors

* 12.3 trillion ops per sec.

* took 28 tractor-trailer trucks to deliver

this was the part that astounded me. It said it was 1,000 X's faster than Deep
Blue!!

so we're talking about a machine that in theory could do 200,000,000,000 nps!!


Is this really so for those in the know with hardware and these types of
machines?



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