Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 07:24:40 04/12/00
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On April 12, 2000 at 06:13:40, Graham Laight wrote: >On April 11, 2000 at 22:13:32, Dann Corbit wrote: > >>On April 11, 2000 at 17:36:10, Jeremiah Penery wrote: >> >>>On April 11, 2000 at 06:04:48, Graham Laight wrote: >>> >>>>On SSDF, Crafty is rated as 2624 on a 450 Mhz PC. >>>> >>>>Generally, a doubling of processor speed results in an improvement of 60 elo. >>>> >>>>So, if Crafty were put on a 900 Mhz PC with 4 processors, it could achieve 3 >>>>doublings, or 180 elo improvement, to get a rating of 2804. >>> >>>Or you could just use a 16-CPU Alpha 21264 767(?) MHz machine for some real >>>speed. Just one of these processors ran faster than Bob's 4x400 Intel machine. >>>:) (Each is about the speed of an Athlon 1GHz.) >>> >>>I think they're making 32-processor machines even... >> >>Something even bigger on the burner. From >>http://www.digital.com/hpc/systems/sys_hpc320.html: >> >>"The HPC160 and HPC320 are part of Compaq's strategy to deliver HPTC systems >>that are based on collections of standard, volume SMP systems, linked together >>via System Area Network technology. While the HPC160 and HPC320 are targeted at >>ISV applications requiring up to 32 CPUs, there is a need for much larger >>systems, with hundreds or thousands of CPUs, for in-house applications >>previously supported by systems such as the Cray T3D and T3E. The ASCI >>(Accelerated Strategic Computing Initiative) program, for example, is demanding >>parallel systems into the teraflops and beyond. For those customers, Compaq is >>creating a family of packaged systems, based on a System Area Network licensed >>from Quadrics Supercomputers World, which will provide systems starting at 64 >>CPUs up to hundreds, or even thousands, of CPUs." >> >>A few thousand 21646's ought to run chess rather quickly. > >A couple of months ago, I saw Bruce Moreland complaining at CCC that IBM had >taken the credit for beating the world champion (the "Crown Jewells" of computer >chess), then disappeared into the night without allowing any further analysis of >their machine. > >The essence of IBM's claim to fame is that they built a supercomputer and proved >how good it was by using it to beat the world champion at chess. > >How ordinary this achievement would look if, just 3 or 4 years later, a similar >level of achievement was made by a computer which Joe Public could buy off the >shelf! > >-g It will eventually happen. I am 52 years old. I am not sure it will happen in my lifetime, although it might. I am sure it will happen within the lifetime of my kids...
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