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Subject: Re: how to beat krammnik?

Author: Bernhard Bauer

Date: 07:01:26 11/08/00

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On November 07, 2000 at 20:35:29, Pham Minh Tri wrote:

>> don't agree.The present fastest  computer of the world "ASCI-White" is 1000
>>times faster - 12,3 teraflop-   than the computer Deep Blue", which won the
>>match against  Kasparov 1997.
>>2474165 home computers of the SETI project rendered a  performance of 26.42
>>tera-flops in  the last 24 h see:setiathome.ssd.berkeley.  I think that this
>>performance is able to beat Kramnik in a competition.
>
>There may be something misunderstanding: there are only around 4000 computers
>connect to SETI at one moment. It is too far form the a normal supercomputer
>(because of long and worse connections). The result of 26.42 tera-flops has been
>done for all years of SETI project (and I think ASCI-White do its 12.3 teraflops
>in 1 sec). This performance is not enough for beating neither Kasparov nor
>Krammnik. In other word, Krammik has to play a match with SETI computers in 2-3
>years for losing it.

1. I'm wondering if there is any chess program around that makes use of flops,
megaflops, teraflops. Perhaps most programs will play chess without those flops.
2. Currently we don't know whether a mp program running on a 32-proc machine
will perform better than on a 8-proc machine.
Kind regards
Bernhard

play better tha



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