Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 19:54:08 07/11/00
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On July 11, 2000 at 22:22:05, Jorge Pichard wrote: >On July 11, 2000 at 22:01:13, Dann Corbit wrote: > >>On July 11, 2000 at 21:17:40, Jorge Pichard wrote: >> >>>Graham Laight wrote that in 1997 Deep Blue did better than Deep Junior is doing >>>now; whenever it got a significant advantage, it won against Kasparov. >>> >>>My answer to that comparison is that if you compare the difference in hardware >>>between Deep Blue Super computer to the Primergy netserver, it is like >>>comparing the Space Shuttle to a Helicopter in Speed. Deep Blue could not have >>>done better against this type of opponents, using the same Primergy Netserver. >> >>The comparison is even more pure nonesense than you are relating. >> >>The architecture is completely different. Deep Blue used a hardware solution. >>Deep Junior is a software solution. Apples and Oranges if there ever were any. > >I was not comparing the architecture of the hardware, what I am trying to point >out is that given the calculating power of the two different systems, there is a >ratio of a least 200 to 1. Therefore, the advantage of using a system which is >capable of calculating 200 times faster, simply indicate that Deep Blue Software >was not really superior to Deep Junior, but the advantage of its calculating >power will make any top Commercial software rates by SSDF play like a super GM. It's strictly a nonesense comparison. Superiority or inferiority of the software piece is something we will never know, either. Imagine a CPU that has a square root instruction. Imagine a second CPU that emulates the square root in software. You might do things very differently when you write your programs if you know you have a 20 cycle hardware square root instead of a 200 cycle software square root. There is no meaningful comparison that can be made, and "counting nodes" is little more than pure nonesense to try to prove which one is/was better. The hardware is completely different. The software is completely different. The algorithms are completely different. One of them is no longer available.
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