Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 11:43:58 06/30/00
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On June 30, 2000 at 14:40:12, Fernando Villegas wrote: >Hi: >I understand your point, but My point is not fully anchored in the fact if >really the new monster is 1000 times faster than DB. 1000 can be and probably is >just a kind of metaphore to say that this new one is a lot faster than any >other.... Even just 100 times faster is Ok for me :-) But it does not have IBM's chess chips. Imagine we replace a 747 with a space shuttle!! Then we take the rockets off and put piston engines on it. A completely different kind of motor is what we are talking about. The original Deep Blue machine housed a giant hoard of chess CPU's. A single one of them is faster than any chess program alternative, and they had a boatload of them. The Blue Gene thingy does not have any of them. It's not a chess machine at all. And it's probably not SMP, so you could not even port crafty to it. In other words, it would suck at chess.
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