Author: Bo Persson
Date: 00:45:55 06/10/03
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On June 09, 2003 at 15:21:10, Ricardo R Santana wrote: >Hello All > >we have seen a big improvement in PC hardware, and so in chess programs rating. >So, for standard time control I believe there are some relations . So, my >questions are quite simple: > >1) Is there any basic relation with computer speed x rating ? what about RAm x >rating ? Higher speed, higher rating? :-) Double the speed, maybe +50 ELO points? More RAM means larger hash tables, or more cache for the end game table bases. But you also need a fast processor to use it all. Faster RAM can be an advantage, but not much. > >2) If so, is there a graph with these plots for some programs (I believe there >are different performances relations for each kind of program). > >3) SO, what was deep blue performance (in nodes or something like this) 200M NPS >compared >with today speed (nodes/second ??) 1-2M for normal PCs, 3M for 8 processor servers. > >Thanks in advance >Ricardo Sant Ana Bo Persson bop2@telia.com
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