Author: Slater Wold
Date: 08:18:06 02/19/02
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On February 19, 2002 at 10:40:32, Robert Hyatt wrote: >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... Each chip did: move generator smart-move stack eval search All 480 of 'em. At 2 - 2.5 MILLION positions a second.
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