Author: Gian-Carlo Pascutto
Date: 05:12:32 01/10/02
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On January 10, 2002 at 08:03:50, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote: >On January 10, 2002 at 07:48:26, Ed Schröder wrote: > >>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. >The Blue Strom will run at > >6 088 280 061 nodes per second If we use the '1700 times faster than DB' number, we arrive at 250M x 1700 = 425 000 000 000 nodes/s 76 500 000 000 000 nodes per move Again assuming a branching factor of 4 (This was the case for DB IIRC) we get...(drums rolling again)...23 ply -- GCP
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