Author: Eelco de Groot
Date: 06:54:20 03/03/02
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On March 03, 2002 at 08:56:32, ramkumar wrote: >http://www.icdchess.com/forums/1/message.shtml?216125 Hello, I see Gian-Carlo also answered your question. First Intel was built for speed. But they realized their mistake and now they are testing for Crafty performance. I don't know, maybe Nolan wrote this with a little irony? On the other hand, he is an Intel man. If Intel is working at it at this moment, we can expect results in about two years. Maybe Intel can afford to get two years behind but not many companies can. As Gian-carlo said Crafty for about a year at least is part of Spec-Int http://www.spec.org/osg/cpu2000/results/ or probably a more recent link. This was on single processor machines, I don't know if there is an equivalent benchmark for multi-processor configurations, Crafty would be a good candidate. (Aside note: We don't see much happening in that field, multi-processor computers for the big market. Could just be part of the slowdown and the recession in the tech-market of course. Maybe Christophe Theron is right and the trend will be more towards smaller computers, hand-helds like Palms and Pocket PCs. Another possibility, Local Area Networks and computers distributing tasks that require much calculations and information sharing by much faster networks than we have today, will be most important.(Like the way SETI searches extraterrestrial messages with their screensavers). Certainly for the business market and all office computing I think that trend is very important?)For chessprograms the difficulty is hash-tables, they would have to be shared by all linked computers in a networking chessprogram. Not the way Deep Blue did it though, at least I'm sure not with Hsu's special-purpose chessplaying chips, so it is not impossible to play chess without transposition tables.) For video-gaming, the bottle-neck is more frame processing, the main processor is not that important there, expensive video cards are. Other people here are much more knowledgable in these things, so take this with some sound skepticism, Regards, Eelco
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