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Subject: Re: 16,000 Hammers in Sandia supercomputer--Deepest Fritz?

Author: Bob Durrett

Date: 18:14:06 10/23/02

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On October 22, 2002 at 16:21:40, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On October 22, 2002 at 14:53:21, stuart taylor wrote:
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>>On October 22, 2002 at 11:40:40, Robert Hyatt wrote:
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>>>On October 22, 2002 at 01:13:43, Timothy J. Frohlick wrote:
>>>
>>>>Sandia Labs is just down the street from me on Kirtland Air Force Base.
>>>>I lived about 1 kilometer from the labs when I lived on base.  This "Red
>>>>Storm" machine will do 40,000,000,000,000 operations per second.  Put Fritz X
>>>>on that and smoke it.
>>>>
>>>
>>>Put fritz on that and it will use exactly one cpu.  That machine is pure
>>>message-passing.
>>
>>If it would use all, I think it should solve chess.
>
>Chess is exponential.  Even if it had 16,000 X 16,000 processors, it would not
>be anywhere near enough.

That may depend on how much time you give the computer to solve the problem.

Bob D.


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>>S.Taylor
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>>>>TJF
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>>>>On October 22, 2002 at 00:06:51, Sally Weltrop wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/3/27718.html



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