Author: Jesper Antonsson
Date: 17:52:36 11/17/01
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On November 17, 2001 at 18:24:20, Otello Gnaramori wrote: >On November 17, 2001 at 16:02:49, Joshua Lee wrote: > >>Even without the massive hardware and despite how much slower it would be is >>there enough knowledge about how Deep thought/ Blue Played to re-create it? >>How much time and money would it take? > >Hi Joshua, >I think that as already stated somewhere in this forum , the D.B. algorithms , >evals and so on are pretty standard ones and to be more clear are a bit outdated >since that project was stopped on '97 by the IBM. >The great "plus" of D.B. was and still is the hardware base of calculus with >specialized chips capable to reach an outstanding value of 200 >Megapositions/second . > >Kind regards, >Otello. Otello, there is not enough information available for you to make such claims. To answer the original posters question, no, there is not enough knowledge about DB to create a DB-emulator. If IBM made all DB information public (which would probably involve documentation work for them), I think it would take perhaps six months, full time for one person, to create an emulator. Of course, to emulate a massively parallel beast like that perfectly on a serial machine would be almost impossible, I don't expect that even DB got repeatable results all the time, but I think you could get close enough. The speed of the emulator, NPS-wise, would be way below what we see in current micros because, among other things, the eval is probably to complex to run quickly in software. Regards, Jesper
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