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Subject: Re: Blue Storm

Author: Timothy J. Frohlick

Date: 19:45:46 01/10/02

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Ed,

Very impressive.  I am laughing at all the "computer scientists" at this site
who are saying "Ho-Hum".  I am sure that IBM will do quite well without them.

20,000,000,000,000 calculations per second and 260,000/2.2 Kilograms. That is
about 17,000,000 calculations per Kilo.  Nicht Schlecht! I could get high on
that.

Tim Frohlick

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.
>
>Ed



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