Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 18:36:07 05/08/01
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On May 08, 2001 at 14:46:45, Terry McCracken wrote: >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 The "IF" is very big. that many processors would have a serious latency problem and would be message-based. Crafty won't fly on that kind of architecture at present.
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