Author: Jason Williamson
Date: 04:08:51 09/15/00
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On September 15, 2000 at 01:51:40, Dann Corbit wrote: >On September 15, 2000 at 01:23:11, Robert Hyatt wrote: >[snip] >>No. General purpose hardware is always a factor of 100 or so behind the speed >>of special-purpose hardware. In 1997, I would put this advantage at 1000x for >>DB over the best PC hardware available. In 2000, I would say closer to 200x >>counding the 8-way xeon machines. Or if you go to the best of the best, the >>numbers I gave are probably close. > >On the other hand, in 4 years or so, there will be two new generations of Alpha >chip. Take 64 of these and put them into one of those screaming Alpha SC >computers running Tru64 UNIX and I think the NPS would be about Deep Blue level. > >On the other, other hand, if Hsu/Campbell et. al. got together again with >shrunken chips and the latest stuff IBM could offer, I suspect there would be >another quantum leap needed to compete again. There's a scary thought: Deepest Blue, the machine that Kasparov would lose every game to.
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