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Subject: Re: Hsu Presents a Paper at

Author: Vincent Diepeveen

Date: 13:50:10 06/24/98

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On June 24, 1998 at 13:49:04, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On June 24, 1998 at 13:33:41, Keith Ian Price wrote:
>
>>On June 24, 1998 at 09:07:50, Ernst A. Heinz wrote:
>>
>>>         Hot Chips 10 Advance Program
>>>
>>>              August 16-18, 1998
>>>    Memorial Auditorium, Stanford University
>>>            Palo Alto, California
>>>
>>>[...]
>>>
>>>2:30-4:00   Session 4:Specialized Chips   Alan Smith ,chair
>>>
>>>Designing a Single Chip Chess Grandmaster While Knowing Nothing about Chess
>>>   Feng-hsiung Hsu, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center
>>>
>>>[...]
>>>
>>>Any computer-chess enthusiasts from the US going there ... ?
>>>
>>>=Ernst=
>>
>>
>>I wonder if it will just be his standard 1.5 hour talk with a new title for the
>>theme of the symposium. I could get down there relatively easily, if I thought
>>he could say anything in depth in 1.5 hours. I would guess it is just the same
>>presentation, though.
>>
>>kp
>
>
>
>I'd suspect it is different, based on the conference.  But it also might not
>have much of the data we'd like to see.  IE I suspect that it will be less about
>chess, and more about how the hardware was designed to do certain time-critical
>functions efficiently, and how architectural problems were addressed over the
>evolution from chiptest to deep blue II.
>
>Would still be interesting to hear, but more from a hardware perspective, based
>on the "hot chips" title...



Few newbie questions for Hsu, maybe someone can ask them or some of
them; first attempt to make a question list for Hsu:

  -how big is the hashtable on that processor, or didn't he implement it at
   all at it?

  -why doing a fixed depth at a processor, sounds very stupid to me

  -how fast is communications with his design with the mainframe/supercomputer

  -how many cycles takes an evaluation at his hardware single chip?

  -what micron technology, 0.60?
  -what megaherz speed runs CPU at?

  -how to design on CPU's knowledge depending things which depend on
   other knowledge in a smart and lossless way speed it up?

  -how many transistors on CPU (or does this sound cruel?)?

  -how many dollars is pressing one CPU when pressing say 10,000?

Greetings,
Vincent



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