Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 07:40:32 02/19/02
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On February 18, 2002 at 23:04:21, Russell Reagan wrote: >In reading the Deep Blue post below, I was curious how exactly they program >hardware to perform certain actions. Is it similair to the way that they make a >CPU with certain instructions that it can execute? Is this something that the >common person can experiment with, or do you have to be IBM (or other big >computer company) to play around with stuff like that? Seems interesting to me. >I'd like to know more about it. > >Russell The DB hardware isn't "programmed". It is _designed_ to do a particular thing, in this case an alpha/beta search + evaluation. There are no "instructions" to execute at all. And that is where it gets its incredible speed...
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