Author: Vincent Diepeveen
Date: 21:07:33 05/13/04
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On May 13, 2004 at 11:07:13, Duncan Roberts wrote: >On May 13, 2004 at 07:47:32, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: > >>On May 13, 2004 at 03:09:22, Joshua Shriver wrote: >> >>>Question is... are they going to run a parallel based chess engine on it :) >> >>Only diep would run at it, and they didn't approach me. AFAIK their only plan is >>to build a 50 tflop machine for 50 million dollar and the rest is unclear. > >would the 50 tflop overcome the problem of losing your hash tables and how many >ply would you get out of such a machine ? > > >Duncan tflops do not count for chess. earthmachine would suck ass for chess for example. i guess you want to play tournament games at such supercomputers, because blitz you can forget anyway. after working for many years fulltime, you can run at a 5000 processor opteron supercomputer without problems (assuming you could test some too). it will run at 3 minutes a move ok then. not at blitz. 460 processors gave diep about a ply or 2 in middlegame extra and in endgame or far middlegame even more (round 8 and later). So i guess 5000 processors nearly as fast as the pc processors used, would give a ply or 5 more when used wisely. I ran at 500Mhz mips processors, not such a fast processors anymore nowadays.
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