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Subject: Re: The New IBM Monster running 1000 times faster than deep Blue...

Author: Angrim

Date: 21:48:21 06/29/00

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On June 29, 2000 at 19:03:35, Fernando Villegas wrote:

>Hi all:
>Probably you have already read about the new supercomputer delivered by IBM to a
>center where they investigate atomic devices blast. It is 1000 times faster than
>deep Blue and so maybe you wonder, as me, what a thing like this could do if
>running a program like that enclosed in DB. Bob?
>Fernando

It may be 1000 times faster for simulating atomic blasts, but the new
computer lacks the custom chess hardware which made DB so powerful.
For chess purposes it would be far slower than DB was.

Angrim



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