Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 19:34:36 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!! This is poorly worded. It may be 1000 times faster than the SP2 that DB ran on. But without the chess processors used by DB, it is very doubtful it would be even 1/2 as fast. That is just a guess at performance, since comparing anything to DB is very difficult when one of the things is a general-purpose computer and the other is a special-purpose chess processor replicated 480 times and has absolutely nothing to do with the cluster you mentioned... > >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? Not very likely, no...
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