Author: Pham Minh Tri
Date: 22:49:33 02/06/02
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On February 06, 2002 at 22:54:07, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On February 06, 2002 at 19:32:39, ALI MIRAFZALI wrote: > >>On February 06, 2002 at 19:28:21, Frank Nelson wrote: >> >>>On February 06, 2002 at 17:48:52, walter irvin wrote: >>> >>>>i wonder if a 2ghz pc with the latest crafty beat the cray blitz that won the >>>>world champoinship ?????????? >>>> >>>>my vote is with crafty >>> >>>You are forgetting that cray blitz was runned on a supercomputer at many >>>m.i.p.s. than that which a home pc can acheive. So my bets are with cray blitz! >>Actually your last Statementis not True.A 2 gig Home PC has more m.i.p.s then >>the old Supercomputers which ran Cray Blitz. > > >MIPS are irrelevant. A single instruction on the Cray could operate on a long >series of things, like a chess board. And the first Cray built had at _least_ >ten times the memory bandwidth of the fastest PC built today. 1983 crays could >beat todays best PC by a factor of 1000 in moving stuff thru memory... > >there is more to it than meets the eye... Bob, a curious question: why didn't you continue to develope on supercomputer hardware? Because of expensiveness? I think we might have some exciting events before Deep blue :)
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