Author: Joachim Rang
Date: 13:00:02 06/10/03
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On June 10, 2003 at 14:48:23, Ricardo R Santana wrote: >Hello All >so, with the following information (thanks Bo) > >>Double the speed, maybe +50 ELO points? > >Deep Blue >>200M NPS >> >>>compared >>>with today speed (nodes/second ??) >> >Today computers: > >>1-2M for normal PCs, 3M for 8 processor servers. >> > >Lets say we have normal PC with 2.2M (nodes/second). So, we expect >2.1NPS*2^6 = 140 NPS and 2.1NPS*2^7=280 NPS. So, today PCS should increase about > or 7 times to get 200M NPS !!. This is the first conclusion. > >So, since 200M NPS are about 6 or 7 "doubles", we can expect deepblue to have >6*50 to 7*50 rating points ahead todays PC. So, this is about 300-350 points. >SSF presents a lot of programs with 2600. So, DeepBlue is about 2950 !!! This is >too crazy for me...please, help ME !!! NPS say nothing about the strength of a program. Take Shredder 7.04 and Junior8- The latter program has about 3 times higher NPS but still play weaker.
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