Author: stuart taylor
Date: 00:04:48 07/02/00
Go up one level in this thread
On July 01, 2000 at 13:00:25, Fernando Villegas wrote: >On July 01, 2000 at 12:47:05, Dann Corbit wrote: > >>On July 01, 2000 at 12:23:42, Fernando Villegas wrote: >>[snip] >>>Hi Dann: >>>It seems I have not been capable of expressing me clearly. My awful english. Of >>>course the current monster such as it is today does not even play chess. Does >>>not even sucks. What I mean is: what IF a hardware like that, or better said, a >>>hardware similar to that in power was someday engaged with a chess program. >>>That's all. Or even more simple: what if the same current or decesed DB was 1000 >>>times faster. >> >>I wrote somewhere that if they took a "Blue Gene" machine and put 64000 of Hsu's >>new chips in it, it would play "pretty decent chess." >> >>If we simply scale up the 200M NPS by a thousand we get 200 billion nodes per >>second. If you really could build that machine it would be pretty interesting. >> >>However, just considering the component count and size of the machine you will >>see that it would be expensive to build, program and operate. >> >>I don't think we will ever see such a beast. > >Dan: >I am not so sure of that. There are things comming that are beyond imagination. >Of course WE probably will not see that, at least not in our desks. >Salutes from the rain and the cold >Fernando And then we will see if it actually swallows up all our software then. S.Taylor
This page took 0 seconds to execute
Last modified: Thu, 15 Apr 21 08:11:13 -0700
Current Computer Chess Club Forums at Talkchess. This site by Sean Mintz.