Author: Angrim
Date: 15:04:26 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!! > > >Is this really so for those in the know with hardware and these types of >machines? Pure marketing drivel. They are just comparing the non-chess specific parts of the two machines(ie. if you used deep blue for simulating nuclear power plants) and then pretending that this has something to do with deep blue's chess ability. Might be an interesting machine to run crafty on once crafty supports message passing systems though :) Angrim
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