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

Author: Vincent Lejeune

Date: 14:10:53 10/16/02

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On October 16, 2002 at 15:37:33, Slater Wold wrote:

>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.

And chrilly donninger pointed out that the Brutus chip don't use many power of
the main CPU, so we can dream about 4 (may be 16 ??) Brutus chip in a 2Ghz pc
...



>
>>Am I missing something?
>>
>>Russell



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