Author: Jay Scott
Date: 11:14:51 01/07/98
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On January 07, 1998 at 02:35:51, Don Dailey wrote: >On January 06, 1998 at 18:35:32, Jay Scott wrote: >>On January 06, 1998 at 17:30:40, Don Dailey wrote: >>>In >>>every way (except raw speed) the Deep Blue team is handicapped so you >>>can not expect them to compete with the highly tuned micro programs. > >>This is not true. The hardware has one big advantage besides >>outrageous speed: it's parallel at the transistor level. You can >>get more evaluation function terms at each node by adding >>transistors, and adding transistors does not slow you down. > > >Hi Jay, > >I consider this a speed issue too. I concede the quantity issue, >they do more things and do them all faster. Well, of course it's a speed issue, but it's a different speed issue. Even if the hardware were slower than software in nodes per second, you'd still design a more knowledgeable program for hardware because the tradeoff is so happy. One speed issue is that everything's faster in hardware, another speed issue is that there's more chance for fine-grain parallelism in hardware. I don't think we're disagreeing here. Designing hardware rather than software loosens up all the rules and lets you reach new design points (in return for the headache of dealing with silicon rather than bits). So I'm not sure of anything much about Deep Blue until they tell us. Jay PS If you want to see something really funny, give Chris Whittington some fab access. :-)
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