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Subject: Re: University of Delaware to test 132 AMD Processor Supercomputer.

Author: Jorge Pichard

Date: 11:05:16 01/22/01

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On January 22, 2001 at 08:36:53, stuart taylor wrote:

>On January 22, 2001 at 02:43:26, Timothy J. Frohlick wrote:
>
>>Dear CCC,
>>
>>Now if Deep Fritz or Deep Junior or Chess Tiger will run on the 132 processor
>>AMD computer that would be awesome.  Gee, I wonder how many watts it would take.
>>
>>http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB20010119S0018
>>
>>Tim Frohlick
>
>That's it then. Even if it is not the fastest supercomputer in the world, if it
>can run normal software, and you put the most suitable Tiger on it, and each
>minute of thinking time is like about 2 hours on a normal top speed PC, then it
>would surely crush what Deeper Blue used to be. Just make sure that the Tiger is
>maximised for great strength increase on infinite, not worrying about about
>strong blitz, as even game in one minute will be the strength of game in 2
>hours, normally.
>S.Taylor

I strongly doubt that Rebel Tiger would increase more than 100 rating points
using this machine, and how can you assume that it would have definitively crush
Deeper Blue. Another thing is how can you even assume that Rebel Tiger is the
strongest available chess program.

Pichard.



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