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Subject: Re: Tiger against Deep Blue Junior: what really happened.

Author: Chris Carson

Date: 12:45:52 07/27/00

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On July 27, 2000 at 15:40:50, Tom Kerrigan wrote:

>On July 27, 2000 at 15:32:24, Chris Carson wrote:
>
>>On July 27, 2000 at 15:22:27, Tom Kerrigan wrote:
>>
>>>On July 27, 2000 at 15:01:43, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>>>
>>>>On July 27, 2000 at 14:41:20, Tom Kerrigan wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>On July 27, 2000 at 14:14:11, Eugene Nalimov wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>Tom, next time please read the available papers before jumping into discussion.
>>>>>
>>>>>I believe Bob about the 480 processors, esp. b/c Andrew just posted the relevant
>>>>>information from Hsu's paper.
>>>>>
>>>>>The reason I jumped into this discussion is because Hyatt got aggressive with
>>>>>Chris when Chris called 1B NPS into question. That behavior is not appropriate.
>>>>>
>>>>>-Tom
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>I got aggressive when someone tells me I am making up numbers, even though I
>>>>give them a pointer to a journal article that contains the actual data I was
>>>>quoting.  And _MY_ behavior is not appropriate?
>>>
>>>I've only seen you say "read Hsu's IEEE article." No date, no page number, no
>>>paragraph number, no line number. No direct quote, either. People should not be
>>>expected to do this kind of research for you. The fact that you like to see
>>>people do research on their own is not appropriate. This is a discussion forum,
>>>not one of your classes.
>>>
>>>-Tom
>>
>>Albet Silver posted a notice about the IEEE article.  I asked him which
>>IEEE article and that I would read it when I had some time.  Bob started
>>quoting the IEEE article after that.  Check the threads.  It did happen
>>very close together, so Bob may have posted first, but I did not see it,
>>I saw the post from Albert.  Albert e-mailed me the article and I thanked
>>him.
>>
>>One thing is for sure, Bob did not quote the article when this debate
>>started and wated a long time before posting.  Article at best confirmed
>>480 chips.  So what?
>>
>>Also, there are descrepancies between IEEE articles as Tom and Ed have
>>pointed out.
>>
>>The bottom line is DB averaged 200M NPS and that was a guess because
>>no test was ever done on the DB system to get a number (acording to Bob),
>>thus the 200M NPS may or may not be correct, it is a SWAG and proves
>>nothing about the DB vs Micor debate.  It was a red hearing.
>
>From another (non-Hsu) IEEE abstract:
>
>"Now it has the ability to calculate 50 to 100 billion moves within three
>minutes." (Deeper Blue)
>
>That puts the number between 277M and 555M NPS. I think this range is probably
>accurate, because it should be easy to count the positions you search per move,
>and this seems like something they might have done.

Thanks.  You have done a pretty good job of researching this, I think
you have quoted from several different IEEE sources.  Nice job of
doing a literature search.  This took you some time and I for one
appreciate the effort!  :)

Best Regards,
Chris Carson
>
>-Tom



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