Author: Terry McCracken
Date: 11:46:45 05/08/01
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On May 08, 2001 at 12:18:31, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On May 08, 2001 at 09:34:06, Chris Carson wrote: > >>Any info or links on this? Does IBM have any plans to play >>chess with this thing? >> >>Best Regards, >>Chris Carson > > >You are missing the point. The SP hardware is _one part_ of the entire >Deep Blue machine. The chess processors are by far the most important part, >and they have nothing to do with the underlying hardware. It is not clear >how well such a machine would perform at chess since everything is so >distributed yet a chess engine needs everything "close by"... This is true Dr. Hyatt. Nevertheless, if you could set up crafty on 1,000,000 processors at 1 GFLOP per processor I would suspect Deeper Blue and it's, "Chess Processors" would succumb to all that power!;) Terry McCracken
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