Author: Tom Kerrigan
Date: 10:45:09 06/28/98
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On June 28, 1998 at 06:09:47, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: >So suppose IBM permits certain people to try to put cpu at card in PC, >what is your conclusion about it, is it very easy possible considering >communication speed? I think communication speed is a total non-issue. I just read one of Hyatt's posts saying a chip searches 2.5M NPS. If a search takes 100,000 nodes, that's one search in 0.04 seconds. Now, consider a chess program on the PC that searches, say, 300k NPS. The same search would take it 0.33 seconds. Thus, if a program uses a DB chip, it's possible (even likely) that it would go 8 times faster than it would without. Even if the communication overhead doubles the amount of time it takes the DB chip to complete a search (impossible in my mind), it would still make the program 4 times faster. And that's with the chip's fancy evaluation, mind you. Cheers, Tom
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