Author: Roy Eassa
Date: 14:52:15 10/26/02
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On October 25, 2002 at 17:19:23, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: >On October 25, 2002 at 16:36:50, Robin Smith wrote: > >It is nonsense to see postings as: "how fast will my DIEP run >on a quantum computer". > >Let's say i first look forward to run on a 512 processor SGI >machine from NWO at world champs in Graz, november 2003, if i >can get the system time for the full machine that is... > >For the coming so many years no chessprogram will have equal power >in a single cpu, even if that's a hardware cpu :) > >But for the speed of computers, if it is true that hardware gets >each 2 years about 2 times faster. Then in 2066 we will be capable >of getting 10^40 clocks system time. That's quite a lot. The doubling canNOT continue forever. We eventually reach the subatomic particle level, where physics is VERY different. In fact, that's where quantum mechanics takes over.
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