Author: Vincent Diepeveen
Date: 19:40:06 04/26/01
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On April 26, 2001 at 22:32:58, Robert Hyatt wrote: >Yes, but he misunderstood my statement. I wasn't talking about a single >chip at 1B nodes per second. That was the peak NPS for the deep blue >hardware. 480 processors * 2.2M nodes per second (average of 2.0 and 2.4) >per processor. > > > > >>Well that's easy to answer. The deep blue chips were even in 1997 made >>from outdated technology. 0.60 microns. Todays standard is 0.18. Note >>GEOFORCE3 graphics card is already 0.15 microns and real soon we'll >>see 0.12 or 0.13 whatever getting used. >> >>Suppose Hsu would redesign those 20Mhz and 24Mhz processors (new info >>to me btw) in 0.12 or 0.13 technology, then a single cpu would be >>faster as 480 chessprocessors were in 1997. I don't doubt that! > >I do... I don't think it would run hundreds of times faster. He _might_ >drive it to 500mhz to 1ghz... 500mhz would be 25 times faster. 1ghz would >be 50 times faster. I doubt it could go faster than that.. Well hsu in an official paper thought different. He thinks even with 0.18 technology he can easily get as much NPS with 4 chess processors where he needed 480 for with deep blue 2. See IEEE99 last few pages. > > > > >> >>I have no idea to how many Mhz it would be clocked but it sure would >>be way faster! >> >>Compare for example that we can buy machines of 1 Ghz. I remember >>still a few years ago i had a 20Mhz 386sx (16 bits/32 bits) machine. >>that's more as a factor 50 difference in speed though in advantage of >>my nowadays fast Ghz machine :) >> >> >> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>>>1)how can one single chip be twice as powerful as the entire deep blue, which >>>>had hundreds of processors? >>> >>>You mis-read what I said. I was talking about the peak NPS for the full DB2 >>>machine. 1,000 M nodes per second. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>>>2)are these chess chips of deep blue and the superchip of hsu good for only >>>>chess calculations or can it act as a general purpose processor? >>> >>>Special chess purpose only... >>> >>> >>> >>>> >>>>thanks >>>> >>>>rajen
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