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Subject: Re: ASCI White vs. Deep Blue

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 13:20:52 09/23/01

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On September 23, 2001 at 15:30:08, Lonnie Cook wrote:

>* 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!!

No
I remember that this was discussed here in the past
1000 times faster is not about chess.

Ascii white is not designed to play chess so saying that it is 1000 times faster
is meaningless.

There is no point in comparing a new machine with Deep Blue if the new machine
is not used to play chess.

Uri



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