Author: Vincent Diepeveen
Date: 19:00:08 01/10/02
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On January 10, 2002 at 08:12:32, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote: >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 Your drums forgot one thing. It is a cluster, not a shared memory machine. So expect a speedup of like 2.0 or something out of n processors.
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