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Subject: Re: IBM's Deep Gene...

Author: Jason Williamson

Date: 08:49:19 05/09/01

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On May 08, 2001 at 21:36:07, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>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.

What ever happened to that distrubuted crafty you were working on?



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