Author: Daniel Clausen
Date: 01:30:50 01/23/03
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On January 23, 2003 at 04:19:47, Jorge Pichard wrote: >On January 23, 2003 at 00:18:54, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>On January 23, 2003 at 00:04:18, Chris Kantack wrote: >> >>>I have seen the rules and other "tidbits" of the upcoming Kasparov vs. Deep >>>Junior match. There's even a site where you can bet on the outcome. But what >>>of the hardware? 2, 4, 6, 8 processors or more???? Processor speed?? >>> >>>Any official info yet? >>> >>>Thanks, >>>Chris Kantack >> >> >>The only viable choices from the Intel world are a dual xeon 2.8, or a quad >>xeon 2.0... I don't think anything else comes close. There might be some >>quad 2.8's in the hands of a select few, but they will probably be hard to >>get access to. > > >It would be great if Amir gets his hands on a Quad 2.8, but a Quad 2.0 would do >just fine. Why they have not posted any information on the hardware to be used >will be simply a surprise :) > >Pichard It's interesting to see that people are so focused on the hardware used in these matches. Of course hardware is important, but I guess that most people (after some thought ;) that the actual hardware used in a comp-human match is a bit less important as opposed to a comp-comp match. So why are people so focused on the hardware issue? I guess it's a mixture of "the rest is even less known" and "people like numbers" (see higher-ups in companies and metrics to see what I mean...) Still, I'm a bit surprised that there's for example no discussion at all, what people think is a particular weakness of Junior against humans. (apart from the 'typical computer weakness of lack of longterm (if at all) planning) Yeah, I know the engine is not yet available, but it's hardly completely different to the current public version. (and with discussion about the software I don't mean silly posts like 'engine X would be better!!! because.. because.. because I say so!!!' :) Sargon
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