Author: Jason Williamson
Date: 20:05:51 05/10/01
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On May 09, 2001 at 21:53:49, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On May 09, 2001 at 11:49:19, Jason Williamson wrote: > >>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? > > >two things. I am working on a UPC version for a 64-node alpha machine. > >I am working on a PhD student proposal for a student that wants to look at the >issue himself for a possible dissertation. If he decides to do this, I would >rather him do it and get credit for it for his PhD. > >But it will be done, one way or another.. Ahh interesting.. :) Did your university ever get that super cluster built?
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