Author: Gerd Isenberg
Date: 13:45:23 01/23/03
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On January 22, 2003 at 16:28:47, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On January 22, 2003 at 12:57:40, Frank Phillips wrote: > >>I stumbled across a couple of interesting games by something called Suturb >>against Crafty on ICC. >> >>There is no hardware information in its finger notes, but it seemed to be >>outsearching Crafty (on dual 2.6GHz Xeon I guess), by a 1 or 2 ply at times. >> >>Is this the gate array chess processor thing from chessbase. >> >>Frank > > >Yes. It was "brutus". It seemed to be doing about 1 ply deeper sometimes, >about the >same others. They claim it searches about 2.8M nodes per second in the >hardware, so >about 3M overall is the max, which is not a lot faster than my dual. The only >thing is >it uses a "Kure" book so it generally starts in a favorable position as I >normally run on >ICC with my "wide" book to provide variety. I would not play the same openings >in >(say) cct6 should I play them. :) But then again, I wouldn't play the openings >I played >against it against any reasonable opponent, so there you go. ;) Hi Bob, this FPGA-monster is able to do a rather sophisticated eval in parallel, so i guess the "quality" of the nodes is rather huge. IMHO Chrilly's Brutus or other FPGA-approaches will dominate the scene during the next years, considering that FPGA hardware has much more potential for further improvement than general purpose processors. More speed and more knowledge. And of course one may use multiple FPGAs in some parallel framework - puh. Gerd
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