Author: Keith Evans
Date: 10:51:22 07/10/02
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On July 10, 2002 at 10:00:09, stuart taylor wrote: >Obviously that is what would be nice to know, and I assume that some people here >have some idea, which I don't yet. > Would it be atleast the equivelent of 10 Ghz. of a proccessor? >If not more, then it would be the same as might anyway be in about 3-4 years >from now. >I would hope it was atleast that, in which case a nimzo program WOULD just about >trounce anything today for a single proccessor, though maybe, not >overwhelmingly. But enough for me (a poor person) to what to spend 3-400 dollars >for one! > But then again, wouldn't others compete with even better ones (hardware), and >even with better software also? >S.Taylor If you're really skilled then you might get the power of one Deep Blue chip out of a $1000+ FPGA based board. This is basically a SWAG based on how well the move generator would fit into an FPGA. My conclusion is that you would be better served by spending $500 more to get an SMP system than $1000+ to get some special purpose hardware. If you did buy such a board and this became popular, then there would probably be guys buying $10,000 boards for competition which would either run faster, or have more chess coprocessors much like Deep Blue. I have heard rumors from some friends about some reasonably priced reconfigurable computing boards loaded with high-end FPGAs under development, but until I see real pricing I'm a bit skeptical. If there turns out to be a "killer app" for this type of hardware, then this could definitely help to reduce the price. Regards, Keith
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