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

Author: Slater Wold

Date: 12:37:33 10/16/02

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On October 16, 2002 at 14:50:04, Russell Reagan wrote:

>On October 16, 2002 at 11:28:34, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:
>
>>I would keep my eyes open at Brutus. Got 3Mnps with an extensive evaluation
>>in a 25 (or 33?) Mhz package. And it's still in development.
>
>Could you explain a little more about this? I'm not sure what you mean. It got
>3Mnps on a 33 MHz machine?

33Mhz chip.  It's running on a normal PC.

>In another post you said something about FPGAs. I
>assumed Brutus was just another chess engine like the rest.

Nope.  The eval, search, and move ordering (AFAIK) is done in HW.  Which means
they are done in zero time.

>Am I missing something?
>
>Russell



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