Author: Vincent Diepeveen
Date: 15:35:12 09/23/01
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On September 23, 2001 at 18:04:26, Angrim 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!! >> >> >>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 :) that'll be only $10000 an hour if you're lucky that they would only charge 10k an hour. >Angrim
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