Computer Chess Club Archives

Search

Terms

Messages

Subject: Blue Storm

Author: Ed Schröder

Date: 04:48:26 01/10/02

http://www.cnn.com/2001/TECH/industry/12/24/ibm.bluestorm.idg/index.html

For the record, Blue Storm will contain 1.5PB (petabytes) of data by 2004, equal
to 75,000 20GB PCs. And it will crunch 20 trillion calculations per second,
meaning that if this reporter used a hand-held calculator to race Blue Storm to
20 trillion calculations, I would be running behind by 17 million years,
according to IBM.

Also, chess players be warned, Blue Storm at its apex, will be 1,700 times
faster than Deep Blue, the super computer that beat chess champion Garry
Kasparov, IBM officials said.

============

I am sold, have ordered the thing with my VISA card.

Anxious waiting for delivery, start porting Rebel, increase the maximum depth to
256 ply. The end of computer chess.

Ed

Re: Blue Storm Timothy J. Frohlick 19:45:46 01/10/02
Re: Blue Storm Brian Richardson 07:33:37 01/10/02
- Re: Blue Storm Vincent Diepeveen 19:05:54 01/10/02
  - Re: Blue Storm Brian Richardson 07:07:39 01/11/02
Re: Blue Storm Steve Maughan 05:32:29 01/10/02
- : ))) (nt) Tony Werten 14:15:30 01/10/02
Re: Blue Storm Gian-Carlo Pascutto 05:03:50 01/10/02
- Re: Blue Storm Gian-Carlo Pascutto 05:12:32 01/10/02
  - math mistake Vincent Diepeveen 19:00:08 01/10/02
    - Re: math mistake Gian-Carlo Pascutto 01:49:23 01/11/02

This page took 0 seconds to execute

Last modified: Thu, 15 Apr 21 08:11:13 -0700

Current Computer Chess Club Forums at Talkchess. This site by Sean Mintz.