Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 16:41:12 01/20/00
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On January 20, 2000 at 12:15:33, Peter Kappler wrote:
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>I'd expect DB2 to win, but I think it would be closer than people expect. It
>certainly wouldn't blow the micros off the board.
But we are talking about old technology verses new.
Consider {back to the present}:
The fastest incarnations of RS/6000 do 3+ teraflops. That's 3,000 gigaflops or
3,000,000 megaflops.
The new Hsu chips are much faster than the predecessors.
Take a new RS/6000 ("fully loaded") and add as many Hsu/Campbell processor
systems as will fit into it. It is potentially one thousand times as powerful
as the old system. Why not? Now, add in a full complement of 8 piece tablebase
files (calculated by that machine).
If it were their goal, IBM, Hsu and company could make a chess machine that
would crush a team of Kasparov + Old-Deep-Blue [Just conjecture, but I think
that they really could do it]. Perhaps an ELO of 3500.
A machine like that would simply be unbeatable. It could make strategic plans.
It could analyze every move that has ever been played to a depth of 20 plies and
store it in a database. Such a computing device would be invincible.
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