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Subject: Re: Chess and Xbox 360

Author: Vincent Diepeveen

Date: 18:35:41 11/09/05

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On November 09, 2005 at 15:12:50, Joshua Shriver wrote:

>I was reading (though not verified) that the Xbox 360 is going to have 3 cores
>running at 3.2ghz using a PPC architecture, with network capabilities.

Perhaps you confuse Xbox with a playstation3 from Sony.
It's supposed to get a 3.x Ghz cell processor. Besides a main processor it has 8
'help' processors. 1 such processor is dedicated to the OS, the other 7 are
available for example for a chessprogram :)

A major problem of it will be that you need to rewrite your chessprogram
completely. I mean *every* byte, to get it to work at that hardware at a decent
speed.

But then you'll have something.

Who pays for that rewrite?

>Wouldn't this make a great system for running a chess engine?
>At $350 it seems really cheap for that much processing power.
>
>Comments are appreciated.
>
>Josh



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