Author: Graham Laight
Date: 01:38:52 08/09/01
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The 25x processor link is a great read! The stumbling block is that he wants to make a million of them - which implies a million buyers. This is going to be difficult for a product that's not an industry standard. I think it would make a great pocket chess supercomputer. The chip does 6 x 10^10 (60,000 MIPS) instructions per second. Assuming 5,000 instructions per node, that's about 12 million nodes per second - or about 2.5 x the number of NPS Fritz will achieve against Mr Kramnik. If it was built, I also forsee improvements leading to a rapid increase in its already impressive MIPS rating. However - how many people will pay $500 for a chess computer when a $20 one already beats > 96% of chess players - and a $40 program beats about 99.5%? Even in the heyday of dedicated chess computers, the expensive ones didn't sell by the million. It would obviously make a good portable VR (virtual reality) device - but unfortunately, marketing budgets tend to win games console wars - not technology. It would make a great server - especially for processor intensive tasks - but he's up against the fact that the big selling servers out there have a plethora of software written for them - wheras all he's got is a language (+ OS) that hardly anyone knows (although it could sit behind a web server, doing the processor intensive calculations only. Maybe that's the niche he should aim for - "Super Calculating Device For Your Web Server" - thus enabling specialist web sites that can do stuff like fluid dynamics, finite-element engineering, chess!!!, and stuff like that live at the back end of a web server). If a niche can be found that can win a million buyers, I think it will be a goer. Unfortunately, I think we're going to have to wait for the slow pace of evolution to produce affordable supercomputing for the masses. -g On August 08, 2001 at 15:37:56, Dan Andersson wrote: >For an interesting example go to: >http://www.colorforth.com/ >And look up the 25x FORTH system. Would not be hard to visualize a 8x8x FORTH >Chess system. And the processor has an eighteen bit width, real handy >considering that six bits are needed to distinguish exactly one square. >6 bits from 6 bits from 6 bits info. > >MvH Dan
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