Author: Adam Oellermann
Date: 23:43:02 06/28/02
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On June 28, 2002 at 19:29:38, Robert Henry Durrett wrote: >DEFINITION: Apologetic SPAM: > >All discussions of spam [a canned version of ham?] and a variety of associated >apologies. > >_ _ _ _ _ _ > >These fall into a normal distribution where the independent variable is time. > >Or is it a different statistical distribution? An "abnormal" distribution? > >Are there any spamish computer chess statisticians here? > >:) :( :) :( :) :( :) :( :) :( :) :( > >_ _ _ _ _ _ > > >Bob D. > > >P.S. Back on the topic of computer chess: > >I am curious. What is the next step up from a PC for chess engines? > >Are we talking $15,000? $30,000? Or what? Surely not a super computer! > >How much chess for the buck? Is the PC the ultimate? Not even close. There was a brief discussion here about an IBM system running dual Power4s for about $15000 which would, judgine from benchmarks, have a significant advantage over PCs. Another $11000-odd allows you to upgrade it to 8 Power4 CPUs; together with plenty of cache and lots of RAM, this would leave a PC without chances. Of course, you can keep going if you have money - there are 32-way versions etc... and if you have *real* money, you could start thinking about supercomputers, but would probably have to develop a "special" chess engine to take full advantage.
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