Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 15:49:59 07/16/00
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On July 16, 2000 at 15:02:54, blass uri wrote: >On July 16, 2000 at 14:51:06, Baldomero Garcia, Jr. wrote: > >>On July 16, 2000 at 11:48:06, blass uri wrote: >> >>>I am sure that they can start to think of kasparov if they can double their >>>speed thinking every 18 monthes. >>> >>>Uri >> >>Since this version of Deep Junior can use many processors, you don't have >>to wait 18 months to double its speed. Simply provide as many processors >>as necessary to make it twice as fast as it is right now. >> >>Baldo > >This version cannot use as many processors as you want simply because there are >no computers with 1000000000000000000000000000000 processors. > >You cannot use something that does not exist. > >I understood that 8 processors is the best that exist today and I guess that in >the future there will be more processors so you have to wait if you want to have >something that is twice faster. > >I guesses that you have to wait 18 monthes but I may be wrong and you may need >more or less time. > >I do not know but this is not the point. > >Uri 8 is a limit _only_ for Intel machines. The alpha can do at least 32-way with a good memory crossbar switch. Far more if you don't mind message-passing as in the Cray T3E.
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