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Subject: Re: its possible to make 1 billion nodes/sec chip 2day- Hsu

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 08:19:47 10/16/02

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On October 16, 2002 at 11:03:33, emerson tan wrote:

>EeEk(* DM) kibitzes: kib question from Frantic: According to what was
>published DB was evaluating 200 million positions per  second (vs  2.5
>to 5 million for the 8-way Simmons server running Deep Fritz).  How
>fast would be Beep Blue today if the project continued?
>CrazyBird(DM) kibitzes: it contains a few reference at the end of the
>book for the more technically inclined.
>CrazyBird(DM) kibitzes: if we redo the chip in say, 0.13 micron, and
>with a improved architecture, it should be possible to do one billion
>nodes/sec on a single chip.
>CrazyBird(DM) kibitzes: so a trillion nodes/sec machine is actually
>possible today.
>
>If the cost is not that high maybe Hsu should make ala chessmachine that can be
>plug into computers (assuming that he has no legal obligation from ibm) The
>desktop pc is a long way from hiting 1billion nodes/sec. I think most of the
>professional chessplayers and serious chess hobbyist will buy. He can easily get
>1 million orders. 1 billion nodes/sec, mmm....:)

There are 3 possibilities:

1)Hsu is not interested in making money
He is interested only in beating
kasparov or kramnik.

If deep blue chip can beat all
the top programs of today then I expect
people to buy it(but people need first to
see a proof by a match against the top programs
of today when Hsu does not have the opponent).

2)Hsu does not believe that he can make money
from a new chip or IBM does not allow him
to make money from a new chip(I do not
understand a lot of details
about it for example why does IBM forbid him
to discover all the details about deep blue
evaluation)

It make IBM looks bad and it seems that they
have things to hide.

3)Hsu knows that he cannot create a chip that
is better than the top programs of today.

Uri



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