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

Author: stuart taylor

Date: 00:04:48 07/02/00

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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



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