Author: Gian-Carlo Pascutto
Date: 02:23:47 02/28/02
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On February 27, 2002 at 19:59:35, Peter McKenzie wrote: >Anyone know anything about Brutus which is playing in Paderborn? I know it is >Chrilly Doningers new program, but not much else. Heard a rumour it has special >purpose hardware, can anyone confirm this? From Vincent Diepeveen (some stuff inbetween deleted): Diepeveen(FM) kibitzes: i go have a look now at p.conners - brutus (chrilly donninger, 3 million nodes a second FPGA chip) Diepeveen(FM) kibitzes: unclear position p.conners - brutus Diepeveen(FM) kibitzes: i'll ask how many processors conners is. 300 or so 866P3 Diepeveen(FM) kibitzes: brutus is fpga chip Diepeveen(FM) kibitzes: in software 50-70k nps Diepeveen(FM) kibitzes: and then each node they get from fpga is a 2-3 ply Diepeveen(FM) kibitzes: with nullmove of course Diepeveen(FM) kibitzes: no hashtables on chip Diepeveen(FM) kibitzes: very little eval on chip because each logics circuit costs money Diepeveen(FM) kibitzes: donning searching 14 ply now Diepeveen(FM) kibitzes: but 14 thin plies Diepeveen(FM) kibitzes: it is a world achivement Diepeveen(FM) kibitzes: he made the entire chip himself Diepeveen(FM) kibitzes: which is an incredible achievement -- GCP
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