Author: Paul Richards
Date: 18:17:04 06/22/99
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On June 22, 1999 at 20:04:36, Robert Hyatt wrote: >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... The general concept seems easy enough, though I grant the details would be nontrivial. Essentially everyone's program could "run in hardware" on such a machine. For chess purposes then Hsu's vaporware could be obsoleted by newer vaporware. ;))) The Xilinx chip that they purportedly use is certainly real enough. Assuming that they have really developed the software necessary to control these chips in real time, the big question would be how fast it actually runs real applications. The teraflop numbers quoted were for simple operations that don't reflect real application performance. But I certainly hope it's all legit. The size and power consumption comparison with Pacific Blue is hilarious, like a hairdryer vs. a small city. :)
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