Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 17:04:36 06/22/99
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On June 22, 1999 at 18:45:25, Paul Richards wrote: >On June 22, 1999 at 17:16:03, Peter Fendrich wrote: > >>Please read about this and comment what this 60000 times a PII 350Mhz >>will do for chess programming. >> >>http://www.forbes.com/asap/99/0531/017.htm >>http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9906/15/supercomp.idg/ >> >>If this is true and it's possible to really take advantage of all that power we >>sure have some interesting years to wait for... :-) > >You can read about it directly at their website, www.starbridgesystems.com. >All I can say is, if this is not an elaborate joke of some sort, it's >a pretty amazing leap. And of course the days of wondering whether >a desktop-sized computer can be a grandmaster would be over. :) Don't overlook the issue that this is not a "single cpu" machine. Using such a massively-parallel architecture is a long way from trivial...
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