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Subject: Re: Deep Blue Jr on ICC

Author: Dave Gomboc

Date: 21:13:18 10/19/00

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On October 19, 2000 at 21:08:06, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On October 19, 2000 at 16:51:49, Albert Silver wrote:
>
>>On October 18, 2000 at 09:56:52, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>>
>>>On October 18, 2000 at 05:44:36, Andrew Williams wrote:
>>>
>>>>My apologies if this is old news.
>>>>
>>>>There was an account called DeepBlueJr watching Kramnik-Kasparov, game 6
>>>>on ICC last night. The finger notes said the owner was Murray Campbell
>>>>(a couple of the admins stated that it was indeed DeepBlueJr). I asked
>>>>him what exactly he was using and he said that it was a 24-processor
>>>>version attached to a R/6000. He said the processors were the same ones
>>>>that ran in the Deeper Blue that beat Kasparov. I asked him what NPS he
>>>>was getting and he said "looks like 28M" (!). I also asked him what sorts
>>>>of depths it was searching, but he didn't answer. Another thing he didn't
>>>>answer was my suggestion that he join CCT2 :-)
>>>>
>>>>The program wasn't kibitzing automatically like crafty does, but he was
>>>>occasionally cutting and pasting the analysis into channel 211. This was
>>>>around the time that Kramnik was on top, before the win seemed to slip
>>>>away from him.
>>>>
>>>>Andrew
>>>>
>>>>PS Just in case anyone was wondering, I asked him if he minded my reporting
>>>>this conversation here and he was quite happy for me to do so.
>>>
>>>
>>>I was surprised, too.  But I did chat with him a good bit and am convinced that
>>>it was Murray.  I will try to bug him a bit about CCT2, but I have a suspicion
>>>that IBM won't allow public exhibitions like that...
>>
>>Really.... Wow. When he posted that, I was convinced some joker had set up the
>>pseudo as a prank. (Sorry about that Andrew)
>>
>>Did you ask him about the tuning? Have they done any work on refining the eval
>>or is it unchanged from the time of the match? 28 million NPS... Wonder how much
>>that cuts in to the depths compared to its bigger brother.
>>
>>                                         Albert
>
>
>I didn't understand the 28M number, but my screen was so danged busy scrolling
>all the nerdy comments from the 1000 people observing the game, that I didn't
>get a chance to ask him.  24 processors at >= 2M nodes per second per processor
>should be 48M.  I assumed he typoed when he said 28M.
>
>It (DB Jr) was a holy terror against GMs in the many exhibitions they played
>prior to the final DB match.  This machine would be less than 10x slower than
>the real machine.  I would think it would be a handful for anybody.

24 processors?  Hmm... 16?

Dave



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