Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 15:06:21 01/23/03
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On January 23, 2003 at 16:45:23, Gerd Isenberg wrote:
>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
And that's a sure way to grab approximately 0.001% of the chess software market.
I'm scared. :)
Christophe
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