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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