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Subject: Re: to bob re:hsu's chip

Author: Robert Raese

Date: 19:10:14 04/26/01

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On April 26, 2001 at 19:58:43, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On April 26, 2001 at 18:11:20, Rajen Gupta wrote:
>
>>hi bob: you mentioned in you recent post regarding hsu's chip being capable of
>>doing 1 billion nodes per sec-is this an advanced version of the "chess chips"
>>which were present oin the deep blue?-as far as i remember the deep blue had a
>>number of general purpose powerpc processors and a number of what they termed
>>"chess chips" if this is so
>
>NO... here is the math.  DB2 used 480 chess processors.  About 1/2 of the
>processors ran at 20mhz, the other half ran at 24mhz.

ok this is probably a stupid question, but isn't 20mhz kind of slow for such
advanced hardware?  what am i missing?



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