Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 12:26:24 06/08/01
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On June 08, 2001 at 02:19:30, Timothy J. Frohlick wrote: >Mr. Burcham, > >Good idea but Ed Schroder did this with his Rebel programs about one year ago. >It would certainly give a hint at the playing strength on faster machines. This >sort of testing would be tedious but informative. Don't get too scientific on >us K. > > >I think that with increasing depth the return on investment diminishes. Just >consider how Kasparov punished Deep Blue. DB was doing a whale of a lot more >computations than a puny 4000 Mhz AMD processor. Knowledge is the key. We need >faster machines in order to access the enormous databases of rules and >exceptions to the rule. > >Tim Frohlick Kasparov didn't "punish" deep blue. Unless you mean he beat the hell out of DB's fist using his face. :) > >On June 07, 2001 at 21:11:15, K. Burcham wrote: > >> >> >>maybe the 4 gig amd processors will be out in two years, maybe even next year. >>so i was wondering how accurate it would be to test this now. >> >>lets say we know that tiger can average 400 kns with a 1500 mhz amd. >>so lets set the clock to four minutes per move. >>this will convert to 96,000,000 nodes in four minutes. >>this is with permanent brain off. >> >>lets say we estimate the 4000 mhz processor to get about 1100 kns with >>tiger. this will convert to 264,000,000 nodes in four minutes. >> >>so the idea is to see what the 4 gig will do against the 1.5 gig, if we had the >>timer set to four minutes per move, permanent brain off. >> >>so based on the above figures we could take two seperate 1.5 gig pcs, >>play tiger against tiger with all settings equal, except for time control. >> >>on 1500 mhz computer #1 we will set the time per move to 4 minutes. >> >>on 1500 mhz computer #2 we will set the time per move to 11 minutes. >> >>now we have 1500 mhz computer #1 getting 96,000,000 nodes per move. >> >>now we have 1500 mhz computer #2 getting 264,000,000 nodes per move. >> >> >>this type of test opens up several questions for me. >> >> >>please dont tell me how the next generation of processors will be 500 megagig >>current pulses traveling in the water of a desktop fishbowl. >>and how our ram will hang from the ceiling in huge grids. >> >>please dont tell me how the software changes every six monthes. >>please dont tell me how the hardware changes every three monthes. >> >> >>the above discribed test is based on the hardware as we view it by todays >>standards. >> >> >> >>please comment. >> >>thanks
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