Author: Slater Wold
Date: 10:59:04 08/10/01
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On August 10, 2001 at 12:47:01, Shep wrote: >On August 10, 2001 at 08:03:37, Les Fernandez wrote: >>Strictly from a speed point of view the above computer is approxiamtely 50,000 >>times faster then the hardware that was used in the Deeper Blue hardware! > >Sorry Les, but this is utterly wrong. > >Deeper Blue had a speed of 200 - 1,000 million _nodes_per_second_ in chess. >This is something completely different from saying it had 0.2 - 1 billion >instructions per second. > >Your calculation would be right if "node" == "instruction", but no computer (not >even a highly specialized one as DB) can examine one node in one instruction. > >--- >Shep Yes, I don't think he read Hyatt's post. DB had processors designed to cut down on the waste, that a normal CPU creates, when calculating chess problems. Therefore, it was that more efficent than any other processor. At chess at least. Slate
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