Author: Djordje Vidanovic
Date: 02:19:41 07/04/03
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On July 03, 2003 at 22:24:01, Dann Corbit wrote: >On July 03, 2003 at 22:12:03, Mick Turner wrote: > >>If I purchased a box with 10.20 ghx X 8cpu; >> >>what type of calculation speed would I be getting ? > >It does not exist, so any answer would be hypothetical. However, let's suppose >that a 1GHz 64 bit chip can do a million chess calculations per second, and just >for fun we will scale a 10GHz machine to do 10 million. Then if we have 0% SMP >loss, you would have 80 M NPS. Deep Blue sustained 200 M NPS. Of course, all >of this is meaningless. There are slow searchers that might play better and get >1/10 of the NPS. Or we might rip out the eval -- count only wood -- and do one >trillion NPS, but get killed with zero points in a thousand game match. > >>How would it compare to DB hardware ? > >It would be either weaker, or stronger. Unless it was the same. Trichotomy and >all of that. Couldn´t resist saying that the semanticist in me loved your last sentence. Djordje
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