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

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 20:51:08 10/23/02

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On October 23, 2002 at 21:14:06, Bob Durrett wrote:

>On October 22, 2002 at 16:21:40, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>>On October 22, 2002 at 14:53:21, stuart taylor wrote:
>>
>>>On October 22, 2002 at 11:40:40, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>>>
>>>>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.

16000 squared processors will need thousands of years.  I don't think any
machine will
stay up that long.  :)

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



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