Author: Lonnie Cook
Date: 15:30:37 09/23/01
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On September 23, 2001 at 16:20:52, Uri Blass wrote: >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. yeah, I kind of figured this, another marketing hype ploy, like some parts of it are the Truth and some are not and only 1% of the population can sift the dribble to know it. > >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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