Author: Alexander Kure
Date: 14:54:13 09/01/02
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On September 01, 2002 at 17:37:54, Slater Wold wrote: >On September 01, 2002 at 15:38:35, Alexander Kure wrote: > >>Dear Slater, >> >>>2 - 3 million is still somewhat slow. If you take into consideration what HW >>>will be used at the next WCCC, it is not hard to imagine Crafty will be getting >>>close to 3M nps, and Deep Junior close to 6M. >>> >>>So you're back to relying on a higher quality search. >>> >>>However, I understand this can be remedied with a better FPGA or even more >>>FPGAs. But of course, there is a reason why you're not doing that now. $. >> >>2 - 3 million is excellent if you consider the complex evaluation which is done >>in the FPGA! The FPGA does not suffer from speed loss when adding more knowledge >>to the evaluation function because of paralellism! Brutus is not considered to >>be a fast searcher but a high class evaluator. >> >>Greetings >>Alex > >That is, in all my reading, not what HW evals are about. > >Of course 'knowledge' doesn't cost in the form of NPS, but it does cost in the >form of gates. And that's not something you have an unlimited supply of. Right, but we still have plenty of gates available ;-)
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