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Subject: Re: DEEP BLUES AVERAGE PLY?

Author: Gian-Carlo Pascutto

Date: 08:32:17 08/21/02

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On August 21, 2002 at 11:21:18, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>>They optimistically estimated their number of nodes at 126 million
>>nodes a second. From that about 20% were *effective* the other 80%
>>was lost by parallellism, as you can see in the document.
>
>That is also wrong.  He said the search was 7% effective, not 20%.  And
>as I said, when I talked to him he used 7% as a number to be used against
>the peak performance of the machine, which was 1B nodes per second based
>on simple math.  That turns into maybe 70M nodes per second in terms of
>single-processor equivalent.

This is new to me. You're saying it only did an effective 70Mnps?

IIRC, Hsu's DBTE was _supposed_ to be >20% effective on 1024 cpus.

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GCP



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