Author: Eugene Nalimov
Date: 22:26:27 11/20/00
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Each RS/6000 CPU that was used to build Deep Blue is significally slower than modern PIII/PIV/Athlon. Even in the match timeframe fastest PII was ~2 times faster on integer operations. Of course there were 30 of them, but now you can 8-CPU Xeon system that will be as fast on (general) integer code. Or you can build huge Alpha machine that will be significally faster. Heart of Deep Blue was specialized chess CPUs -- 16 for each host CPU. And you cannot just port your favorite chess program on that CPU. For example, you cannot force it it execute king safety code from Hiarcs, because you cannot program that CPU in the traditional sense. It is hardwired to do things Deep Blue way. All you can do is to modify weights used by the evaluation function (in extremal case you can assign zero to the some weight, so it would be ignored), and probably depth of some extensions that are done in the hardware. To summarize it: Deep Blue *is* its hardware and software, unseparateable. You cannot replace only part of it. Eugene On November 21, 2000 at 01:02:44, Tania Devora wrote: > > >How strong will be Fritz6 or any top chess program like Nimzo8, Rebel, >Chessmaster8000, Crafty, Gandalf etc, etc... running in this super BIG Monster >Machine??? > >Could be have 200 or 300 elo ponts more? I think that in Blitz games will be >impossible to win. > >And how about nodes?? In a Pentium II 450 Fritz can search 450,000 to 500,000 >positions per second! what about in this monster machine? How many millions of >nodes per second? 50.000.000 ? 100.000.0000 ??? or more? > >It will be very very interesting to see a Top program kicking humans b... in a >machine like this. > >Thanks! > >Tanya.D
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